T. W. Adorno’s scientific contributions

... For example, how might an orientation toward authoritarianism shape the hidden curriculum? An analytical framework such as Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality might offer a productive lens to illuminate this hidden corner in our understanding of the hidden curriculum [53]. ...

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‘Alone in a Crowd’: Teacher-Level and Pupil-Level Hidden Curricula and the Theoretical Limits of Teacher–Pupil Relationships

... The researchers wanted to develop a measure that was able to assess what they considered to be at the heart of conspiratorial thinking: the belief that powerful groups of people secretly manipulate events to undermine the common good. To create this measure, they selected three items from McClosky and Chong's (1985) research into radicalization, with one of the items originally coming from the California Fascism Scale (Sanford et al., 1950), and two of the items originally coming from a scale assessing distrust of the government (McClosky, 1964). An item that had originally been used to validate the scale was later added as a fourth item (Uscinski et al., 2016). ...

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Assessing Conspiracist Ideation Reliably, Validly, and Efficiently: A Psychometric Comparison of Five Short-Form Measures

... These challenges require analytical tools capable of producing relevant knowledge and guiding public policies. Quantitative methodologies, for example, have proven effective in analyzing broad social trends through surveys and statistics [2]. Conversely, qualitative methodologies, as developed by Glaser and Strauss [3] in grounded theory, excel in deeply exploring emerging and contextual phenomena. ...

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Between Qualitative and Quantitative: What Methodological Choices for Contemporary Sociology?

... Neben rationalen Beweggründen müssen auch vergleichsweise unbewusste autoritäre Charakterdispositionen berücksichtigt werden. Sie sind eine gewichtige Grundlage für den Hass auf Minderheiten, die Abneigung gegen die Demokratie und eine erhöhte Neigung zu Gewalt (Adorno et al. 1950). Eine zentrale Komponente des autoritären Syndroms ist der Sadomasochismus, der autoritäre Unterwürfigkeit, starres Festhalten an Konventionen und autoritäre Aggression umfasst (Schließler et al. 2020, S. 284). ...

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Die Gefahr der Co-Radikalisierung: Wie sich Muslimfeindlichkeit und Islamismus in Deutschland wechselseitig verstärken