Afterword

2021 ◽  
pp. 216-224
Author(s):  
Megan Faragher
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Consumer Research ◽  
Computer Algorithms ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Authoritarian Personality ◽  
Psychological Traits ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Work Done

This short afterword looks to the work done by Theodor Adorno and others in the production of The Authoritarian Personality, a quantitative study of psychological traits that might suggest preternatural fascist tendencies in interviewees. This text symbolizes the onslaught of postwar psychographic consumer research, which was only heightened with the use of computer algorithms to more clearly map groups psychology. The book traces the postwar use of “psychography” in marketing, and contends that the book’s tracing of the psychographic turn can help us better understand the contemporary psychographic age, wherein algorithmic sociological profiling has become a dominant force in modern democracy.

scholarly journals The Frankfurt School and the authoritarian personality: Balance sheet of an insight

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 072551362110059
Author(s):  
Geoff Boucher
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
The Other ◽  
Authoritarian Personality ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Authoritarian Populism ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
School Research

Frankfurt School critical theory is perhaps the most significant theory of society to have developed directly from a research programme focused on the critique of political authoritarianism, as it manifested during the interwar decades of the 20th century. The Frankfurt School’s analysis of the persistent roots – and therefore the perennial nature – of what it describes as the ‘authoritarian personality’ remains influential in the analysis of authoritarian populism in the contemporary world, as evidenced by several recent studies. Yet the tendency in these studies is to reference the final formulation of the category, as expressed in Theodor Adorno and co-thinkers’ The Authoritarian Personality (1950), as if this were a theoretical readymade that can be unproblematically inserted into a measured assessment of the threat to democracy posed by current authoritarian trends. It is high time that the theoretical commitments and political stakes in the category of the authoritarian personality are re-evaluated, in light of the evolution of the Frankfurt School. In this paper, I review the classical theories of the authoritarian personality, arguing that two quite different versions of the theory – one characterological, the other psychodynamic – can be extracted from Frankfurt School research.

Revisiting Authoritarianism

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-341
Author(s):  
James Aho
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Erich Fromm ◽  
Authoritarian Personality ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Class Youth

This article traces the roots of the Authoritarian Personality (AP) project in the neo-Freudian/phenomenological tradition of the Frankfurt School (FS). It focuses on three of its major proponents (Erich Fromm, Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse) and examines the construction of the F-scale. It outlines how, according to FS-influenced scholars, the AP arose from the disciplinary measures inflicted on late 19th and early 20th century German middle-class youth, and details the sado-masochistic political style of the prototypical AP. It covers the critical reception of this characterization and explanation of authoritarianism by Bob Altemeyer and Anglo-American positivism. It concludes by arguing that in overlooking the inner life of the AP, positivism blinds us to compelling truths, about authoritarianism, and also about ourselves.

scholarly journals Who is agile? An investigation of the psychological antecedents of workforce agility

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Storme
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
Ambiguity Tolerance ◽  
Precise Description ◽  
Psychological Traits ◽  
Workforce Agility ◽  
Individual Potential ◽  
The Individual

The aim of the present research was to investigate stable psychological traits of workers that are predictive of agility in order to build and validate an inventory to measure the potential for agility of workers. First, in a qualitative study, we interviewed 11 professionals to identify core dimensions of workforce agility and psychological traits that support each dimension. Second, with a quantitative study, we tested on a sample of 808 workers the psychometric properties of an inventory -- the agility index -- measuring the traits identified in the first study. Our qualitative study suggested a set of traits that contribute to workforce agility. Our agility index was found to capture adequately the set of traits -- job-related curiosity, active listening, ambiguity tolerance, learning from past mistakes, anticipation and planning, job self-efficacy, risk-taking, and trust -- and to predict workforce agility. Despite its limitations, the current research sheds light on some important psychological antecedents of workforce agility, which improves our understanding of the workforce agility construct. Managers could use our findings to assess the individual potential for agility when recruiting, training, or guiding employees. In comparison with previous research, our study provides a more precise description of the psychological traits of workers that are associated with agility.

Ozone Attack on Rubber Vulcanizates

1959 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 257-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Buckley ◽  
S. B. Robison
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Theory ◽  
Stress Relaxation ◽  
Crack Growth ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Specific Problem ◽  
The State ◽  
Rubber Elasticity ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Initial Work ◽  
Work Done

Abstract The effect of the attack of ozone on rubber vulcanizates is well known in a qualitative way. Only recently have efforts been made to study this problem quantitatively. Because of this the state of knowledge on this subject is not so satisfactory as that obtained for ordinary oxidation. A quantitative study of the rate and extent of the reaction of ozone with rubber vulcanizates and the cracking under strain is discussed herein. The general knowledge on this subject tells us that ozone attack results in the cracking of the surface of vulcanizates. Cracking occurs only when the specimen is under some strain during exposure to ozone. The broad quantitative problem then becomes one of defining the factors controlling the reaction while the specific problem relating to cracking becomes one of measuring such crack generation and crack growth in vulcanizates under strain. The method used in this work may be described as follows. A sample is stretched and allowed to relax until most of the pertinent stress relaxation has taken place. Ozone is then admitted to the stretched and relaxed sample. As cracking occurs the stress in the sample decreases and the length increases. The effect of the ozone produced cracks may be considered as related to change in form of work. The initial work done on the sample by stretching is derived from an equation expressing the network-statistical theory of rubber elasticity. The cracking is considered as a transformation of work to form new surface.

The jazz essays of Theodor Adorno: some thoughts on jazz reception in Weimar Germany

Popular Music ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Bradford Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Music Industry ◽  
The Other ◽  
Authoritarian Personality ◽  
Commercial Music ◽  
Sociology Of Music ◽  
Weimar Germany ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Theodor Adorno

Theodor Adorno's writings on jazz remain at best a puzzle, and to many an acute embarrassment. To jazz historians they merely contain ‘some of the stupidest pages ever written about jazz’ (Hobsbawm 1993, p. 300) and are generally dismissed without further comment. Adorno scholars, on the other hand, are unlikely to see in them anything more than preliminary steps to his later and more substantial studies in the sociology of music, or – in the words of Martin Jay (1984, p. 132) – a ‘gloss on The Authoritarian Personality’. Nor are matters helped by Adorno's own attitude. In the preface to volume 17 of his Gesammelte Schriften he clearly distances himself from his early jazz writings, referring to his ignorance of the specifically American features of jazz, his dependence on the German-Hungarian pedagogue Mátyás Seiber in matters of jazz technique, and his willingness to draw hasty psycho-sociological conclusions without clear knowledge of the institutions of the commercial music industry. If these essays are belittled by their own author, why should we bother to study them at all?

scholarly journals A Personalidade Autoritária no Brasil em tempos de neoliberalismo e de Coronavírus (The Authoritarian Personality in Brazil in times of neoliberalism and the Coronavirus)

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 4538132
Author(s):  
Bruno Pucci
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Authoritarian Personality ◽  
Psychological Techniques ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
De Se ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
Historical Moment

The purpose of this article is to analyze the anti-democratic manifestations that have been occurring in Brazil at this historical moment, when the dominant capitalist system is the neoliberalism and its political representative is Jair Bolsonaro, the President of the country. Initially, two essays by Theodor Adorno will be analyzed - “Anti-Semitism and Fascist Propaganda”, from 1946 and Studies on Authoritarian Personality, from 1950, with emphasis on Scale F - Fascism Scale -, in order to extract the theoretical-methodological categories, that shed light on the dramatic social and political reality in which the country is immersed. Subsequently, with the intention of seeking outgoing perspectives, the text dialogues with three contemporary thinkers - Stuenkel, Lago and Brum - who present subsidies to analyze the authoritarian evidences that have been progressively established in the country and the possibilities to overcome them.ResumoA proposta deste artigo é analisar as manifestações antidemocráticas que estão ocorrendo no Brasil neste momento histórico em que o sistema capitalista dominante é o neoliberalismo e seu representante político é Jair Bolsonaro, Presidente da República. Inicialmente serão abordados dois textos de Theodor Adorno – Antissemitismo e propaganda fascista, de 1946 e Estudos sobre a personalidade autoritária, de 1950, com destaque para a Escala F – escala do Fascismo –, para deles se extraírem eixos teórico-metodológicos que lancem luzes sobre a dramática realidade social e política em que o país se encontra mergulhado. Em um segundo momento, com a intencionalidade de se buscar perspectivas de saída, o texto dialogará com três pensadores contemporâneos – Stuenkel, Lago e Brum – que apresentam subsídios para se analisar as evidências autoritárias que se estabeleceram progressivamente no país e possibilidades de superá-las.ResumenEl propósito de este artículo es analizar las manifestaciones antidemocráticas que están ocurriendo en Brasil en este momento histórico cuando el sistema capitalista dominante es el neoliberalismo y su representante político es Jair Bolsonaro, presidente de la República. Inicialmente, se abordarán dos textos de Theodor Adorno: "Antisemitismo y propaganda fascista", de 1946, y “Estudios sobre la personalidad autoritaria”, de 1950, con énfasis en la Escala F -- la escala del fascismo --, para extraer de ellos algunos ejes teóricos y metodológicos que arrojen luces sobre la dramática realidad social y política en la que Brasil está inmerso. En un segundo momento, con la intención de buscar perspectivas de salida, el texto dialoga con tres pensadores contemporáneos, Stuenkel, Lago y Brum, quienes presentan subsidios para analizar las evidencias autoritarias que se han establecido gradualmente en el país y las posibilidades de superarlas.Palavras-chave: Personalidade autoritária, Bolsonarismo, Manifestações antidemocráticas, Teoria Crítica.Keywords: Authoritarian personality, Bolsonarism, Anti-democratic manifestations, Critical Theory.Palabras claves: Personalidad autoritaria, Manifestaciones antidemocráticas, Teoría crítica.ReferencesADORNO, Theodor W. & alii. The Authoritarian Personality – Studies on Prejudice. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950.ADORNO, Theodor W. The Psychological Techniques of Martin Luther Thomas. Soziologische Schriften II. Frankfurt: Surkhamp Verlag, 1975.ADORNO, Theodor W. Antisemitismo y Propaganda Fascista. In ADORNO, Theodor W. Escritos Sociológicos I. Trad. Augustín González Ruiz. Madrid – España: Ediciones Akal, 2004, p. 369-379.ADORNO, Theodor W. Estudos sobre a Personalidade Autoritária. Trad. Virgínia Helena Ferreira da Costa, Francisco Lopez Toledo Corrêa, Carlos Henrique Pissardo. São Paulo: Editora UNESP, 2019.ALMEIDA, Ronaldo. Bolsonaro presidente: conservadorismo, evangélicos e a crise brasileira. Novos Estudos. CEBRAP, v. 38, p. 185-213, 2019.BARROS E SILVA, Fernando de. Dentro do Pesadelo: O governo Bolsonaro e a calamidade Brasileira. In: Revista Piauí, Edição 164. Maio de 2020. Acesso: 17/05/2020. https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/materia/dentro-do-pesadelo-2/BRUM, Eliane. O golpe de Bolsonaro está em curso. In: El Pais. 20/02/2020. Acesso: 14/05/2020. https://brasil.elpais.com/opiniao/2020-02-26/o-golpe-de-bolsonaro-esta-em-curso.htmlCARONE, Iray. Fascismo on the air: Estudos frankfurtianos sobre a agitador fascista. In: Lua Nova, nº 55-56, 2002, p. 194-217.CARONE, Iray, A Personalidade Autoritária Estudos Frankfurtianos sobre o Fascismo. In: Revista Sociologia em Rede, vol. 2, nº 2, 2012, p. 14-21.CERASOLI, Josianne Francia. Quatro Faces do Poder na Gestão Bolsonaro. Slide – debatido no Ciclo de Palestras Constituição/88, UFSCar: São Carlos, 2019.LAGO, Ivann. O Jair que há em nós. In Blog do autor. 28/02/2020. Acesso: 14/05/2020. In: https://ivannlago.blogspot.com/2020/02/o-jair-que-ha-em-nos.html?fbclid=IwAR3lMwyoWpPQ0fP5rheMk2QkDpMvcHd0J65RPcyGhUXDJhakMBNNgQhGSJ4LOWENTHAL, L. & GUTERMAN, N. “Prophets of Deceit: a Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator”. False Prophets – studies on authoritarianism. New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1987.PUCCI, Bruno. A elaboração do passado no Brasil em tempos de neoliberalismo selvagem. Inédito, 2019.STUENKEL, Oliver. Por que votamos em Hitler. In: El Pais. 08/10/2018. Acesso: 14/05/2020. https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2018/10/06/opinion/1538852257_174248.html?rel=lomVECCHIATTI, I. Lema de Bolsonaro, também usado no Nazismo, vai contra nossa “Era dos Direitos”. Podcast – Justificando. 22/10/2018. In: https://www.justificando.com/2018/10/22/lema-de-bolsonaro-tambem-usado-no-nazismo-vai-contra-nossa-era-dos-direitos/. Acesso: 17/05/2020.e4538132

Electron-Mirror Microscopic Aspects of Ferroelectric Domains of BaTiO3 And Ca2Sr (C2H5CO2)6

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 478-479
Author(s):  
Teruo Someya ◽  
Jinzo Kobayashi
Keyword(s):  
Surface Layer ◽  
Electric Fields ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Ferroelectric Domain ◽  
Resolving Power ◽  
Surface Pattern ◽  
Crystal Surfaces ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Ferroelectric Domains

Recent progress in the electron-mirror microscopy (EMM), e.g., an improvement of its resolving power together with an increase of the magnification makes it useful for investigating the ferroelectric domain physics. English has recently observed the domain texture in the surface layer of BaTiO3. The present authors ) have developed a theory by which one can evaluate small one-dimensional electric fields and/or topographic step heights in the crystal surfaces from their EMM pictures. This theory was applied to a quantitative study of the surface pattern of BaTiO3).

Analysis of 3-d molecular distribution with the digital imaging microscope

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 40-41
Author(s):  
W.A. Carrington ◽  
F.S. Fay ◽  
K.E. Fogarty ◽  
L. Lifshitz
Keyword(s):  
Image Restoration ◽  
Digital Imaging ◽  
Fluorescent Dyes ◽  
Optical Axis ◽  
Computer Hardware ◽  
Computer Algorithms ◽  
Low Contrast ◽  
Specific Proteins ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Single Living Cells

Advances in digital imaging microscopy and in the synthesis of fluorescent dyes allow the determination of 3D distribution of specific proteins, ions, GNA or DNA in single living cells. Effective use of this technology requires a combination of optical and computer hardware and software for image restoration, feature extraction and computer graphics.The digital imaging microscope consists of a conventional epifluorescence microscope with computer controlled focus, excitation and emission wavelength and duration of excitation. Images are recorded with a cooled (-80°C) CCD. 3D images are obtained as a series of optical sections at .25 - .5 μm intervals.A conventional microscope has substantial blurring along its optical axis. Out of focus contributions to a single optical section cause low contrast and flare; details are poorly resolved along the optical axis. We have developed new computer algorithms for reversing these distortions. These image restoration techniques and scanning confocal microscopes yield significantly better images; the results from the two are comparable.

A Quantitative Study of the Gastric Secretory Response to Sham Feeding in a Human Subject

1950 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry D. Janowitz ◽  
Franklin Hollander ◽  
David Orringer ◽  
Milton H. Levy ◽  
Asher Winkelstein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Secretory Response ◽  
Sham Feeding
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