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The workers are not authoritarian
Author(s) -
RAY J. J.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1991.tb00264.x
Subject(s) - authoritarianism , nothing , scale (ratio) , measure (data warehouse) , working class , class (philosophy) , psychology , sociology , political science , social psychology , epistemology , law , computer science , politics , geography , democracy , philosophy , cartography , database
. Middendorp and Meloen (1990) claim that working class people are more authoritarian than others on the basis of research which used as its measure of authoritarianism versions of the California F scale. It is pointed out that this scale does not measure what it purports to measure and therefore tells us nothing about levels of authoritarianism in any group. Better evidence on the question is referred to which shows no tendency for working class people to be particularly authoritarian.