The Lonely Crowd’s character typology derives from Fromm’s concept of social character

Evidence

The Lonely Crowd, subtitled `A Study of the Changing American Character’, explicitly used Fromm’s concept of social character, and there were some similarities between its ideas and those of The Authoritarian Personality in the way it distinguished between tradition-guided, internally guided and externally guided character types. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1820

Categorization

• XREF: Connects Riesman’s conformity typology to Frankfurt School social-character theory brought from Fromm; relevant to any genealogy of American social psychology. — connects to: Fromm aimed to map social-psychological character types onto political party groupings — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 697; Adorno adapted Fromm’s rebel-revolutionary split into a pseudo-conservative versus conservative split — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1588
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how exactly do the three Lyrical Crowd character types map onto Fromm’s theory and onto the Authoritarian Personality?’s typology?

Broader Connections

• Adorno adapted Fromm’s rebel-revolutionary split into a pseudo-conservative versus conservative split #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1588