Theoretical and methodological foundations of the authoritarian personality |
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| Authors: | Jan Baars Associate Professor Peer Scheepers |
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| Institution: | 1. JAN BAARS teaches sociological theory and social philosophy at the Free University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He researches the history of social theory, especially Critical Theory and theories concerning biography and the life course.;2. Peer Scheepers is associate professor of sociology at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is responsible for the execution of large-scale longitudinal survey research on social and cultural developments in the Netherlands. Within this framework, he is especially interested in the development and explanation of authoritarianism and ethnocentrism. |
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| Abstract: | This article provides a history of the theoretical and methodological contributions, particularly Erich Fromm's, of the sub-syndromes of the concept of authoritarianism and the relationship of his work to the classical study by Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswik, Levinson and Sanford. |
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