Author: Theodor W. Adorno et al.
Synopsis
This large interdisciplinary study investigates psychological and social conditions associated with prejudice and receptiveness to authoritarian ideology. The researchers connect personality patterns with family experiences, social attitudes, antisemitism, and ethnocentrism.
Why It Matters to Sociology
The work became influential and controversial in social psychology and sociology. It stimulated decades of research on prejudice, political attitudes, personality, ideology, and the social foundations of authoritarianism.