European Sociological Review 7:73-75 1991
© 1991 Oxford University Press
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Authoritarianism is a dodo: comment on Scheepers, Felling and Peters
School of Sociology, University of New South Wales Australia.
Scheepers, Felling and Peters have rediscovered the amazing fact that the California F scale predicts racism. They essentially accept the explanation for this given by Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswik, Levinson & Sanford (1950). They seem totally oblivious to the vast amount of research and writing over nearly 40 years that has questioned this explanation. The present paper attempts to point out briefly what these authors have ignored.
Manuscript received: July 1, 1990.