POL 346 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Authoritarian Personality, Authoritarianism, Class Discrimination
5 Feb 2019
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Prejudice is related to political beliefs, behaviors, and intergroup relations. Study of prejudice became important to social scientists trying to understand nazi. Resurgence in importance with 2016 election, brexit, global populism/white nationalism. Certain ideologies are linked to expressions of prejudice. Focus on two dimensions of ideology and the distinct pathways to economic. Study of personality and ideology has coincided with the study of prejudice. Certain personality types are linked to expressions of prejudice. But, the personality approached is limited and ignores a lot of. Today: a different personality approach conservatism and social conservatism environmental/institutional factors that lead to prejudice! It may be directed toward a group as a whole, or toward and individual because he is a group member. Prejudice is studied at multiple levels of analysis: Expressed prejudice is often the result of an interaction between these causes. Ethnic prejudice is an antipathy based on a faulty and inflexible generalization.
