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Dogmatism in relation to sub-types of conservatism: Some Australian data.
- Source :
- European Journal of Social Psychology; Sep73, Vol. 3 Issue 3, p221-232, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 1973
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Abstract
- An examination of the relation between authoritarianism and conservatism is made using newly developed balanced forms of the 'D' and 'F' scales together with scales to measure political, social, moral and economic conservatism. Neither 'BD' nor 'SF' scales predicted voting preference. The 'BD' scale was significantly, positively related to the political, social and moral conservatism scales but was non-significantly, negatively related to economic conservatism. It was concluded that both the 'BD' and 'SF' scales are equally good measures of general authoritarianism among supporters of Australian political parties and that while it is in general true that dogmatic people tend to be ideologically conservative, an exception must be made for economic conservatism. This exception is seen to be inferable from the theory of 'working class authoritarianism' advanced by Lipset (1960). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- DOGMATISM
CONSERVATISM
AUTHORITARIANISM
VOTING
POLITICAL parties
SOCIAL classes
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00462772
- Volume :
- 3
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- European Journal of Social Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 12078301
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2420030302