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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Authoritarian Personality.

  • UPSC 1987
  • Politics and Society

The authoritarian personality is a syndrome of rigid, hierarchical attitudes: deference to those above, hostility towards those below or outside, and intolerance of ambiguity. It is rooted in early socialisation. The concept was developed by Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford in The Authoritarian Personality (1950). Their Berkeley study,…

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