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What did Marx say capitalism would lead to?

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  • financial crisis
  • where proletarian revolt
  • but acc, increased subservience + alignment to power + kicking down
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What is fascism?

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A system of extreme right-wing or authoritarian views

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What is a genocide?

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Deliberate extermination of a race/ nation etc

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Which academics fled Germany before action started taking place?

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Berkeley group

  • thomas W. Adorno
  • Else Frenkel-Brunswik
  • Daniel Levinson
  • Nevitt Sanford
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According to Adorno, what is personality?

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  • made up of primarily needs
  • -> drives, wished, emotional impulses
  • -> these needs are primitive emotional needs to avoid punishment/ keep good will in social group
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What are dispositions?

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  • Persisting forces of personality which helps to determine response in various situations
  • EG: people may have a disposition to have a particular political stance
  • -> pattern they express is their deep-lying trends in their personality
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How does experience affect personality?

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  • person can have a disposition and certain environmental activities can trigger the pre-disposition = behaviour is carried out
  • most impressionable = Youths/ adolescents –> child training in a setting of family
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How does society affect personality?

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  • helps make sense of large changes like genocides
  • it will be changes in the societal level eg policies/ institutions which will drive the bearing of different kinds of personality to develop within society
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At an individual level, what is an ideology?

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  • an organisation of opinions, attitudes and values - a way of thinking about man and society
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At a social level, what is an ideology?

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When opinions, attitudes and values of numerous individuals are examined = common patterns

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At a cultural level, what is an ideology?

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  • ideologies have an existence independent of any single individual
  • where the ideologies have for different individuals, different degrees of appeal
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Why does the attractiveness of an ideology matter?

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  • depends on the individual’s needs and the degree to which these needs are being satisfied
    = so get insight
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What is the psychological/ individual approach to personality?

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P = an agency through which sociological influences upon ideology are mediated
- if personality made clear = better understand sociological factors + their effects

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What is the “bicycle characteristic”?

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  • people tried to create a class of their own by looking down on other people but at the same time bowing down to people above them …?
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What is false consciousness?

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eg: saying there is no oppression for women because they as a woman have not experienced any

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What evidence is there supporting those who score high on TAP are fascist; Meloen 1961?

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  • several fasicists groups scored high on TAP
  • -> British national front members
  • -> Former members of the German SS
  • -> American ‘super-patrioit’ nationalist
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What was good about Meloen’s 1961 TAP sample?

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  • large sample, white, non-jewish, predominantly middle class
  • good representation basically and didn’t include minority groups = since studying likely oppressors
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What is does recursive methodological triangulation mean?

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  • formed a method
  • tried it out
  • altered it
  • tried it again
  • used a range of methods to collect data
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What are the different scale associated with TAP + Fascism?

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  1. Anti-Semitic - AS scale
  2. Ethnocentrism - E scale
  3. Political and Economic conservatism - PEC Scale
  4. Fascism - F scale
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Describe the AS scale

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  • looks at readiness to support or oppose anti-semitic ideology
  • -> negative opinions regarding jews
  • -> hostility towards them
  • -> ‘moral’ values which permeate the opinions and justify the attitudes
  • has sub-scales
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What are the AS sub-scales?

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  • offensive
  • threatening
  • Attitudes - about what should be done to or against Jews
  • Seclusion
  • Intrusion
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Describe the E scale

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  • readiness to support or oppose ideologies incorporating in-group/ out-group hostility
  • -> Anti-black
  • -> Patriotic = in-group favouring and out-group derogatory
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Describe the PEC scale

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  • looking at resistance to social change

- elements of liberty + personal responsibility

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Describe the F scale

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  • looking at POTENTIAL for fascism
  • target-neutral items
  • pro-trait = so if you score high on one, you are likely to score high on another :/
  • Has many clusters
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What are some of the clusters of the F scale?

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  • conventionalism
  • Authoritarian submission
  • Authoritarian aggression
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What is RWA?

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Right wing authoritarian:

  • submission to the established legitimate authorities in their society
  • Conventionalism
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What is an issue with using the term RWA in psychology?

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  • used to in general describe a sense of submission to authorities
    = SO even left-wing establishments = RWA eg Nazis :/
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What is SDO?

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Social dominance orientation

- the extent to which one desires that one’s in-groups dominate + be superior to out-groups

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In what areas do SDO show little to no correlation to RWA?

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  • power
  • psychoticism
  • lack of universalism
  • Gender
  • Lack of benevolence
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In what ares do RWA show little to no correlation to SDO?

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  • Religious fundamentalism
  • Self-righteousness
  • Rationalism
  • Dangerous worlds beliefs
  • Conformity
  • Need for structure
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In threat-control driven prejudice, why are outgroups disliked and feared?

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  • seen as threatening, dangerous, immoral + deviant
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In competitive-dominance-driven prejudice, what are outgroups disposed + derogated>

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  • believe they are inferior, worthless + inadequate
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Why, in order to explain many kinds of prejudice, personality has to be taken into consideration?

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  • only 2 kinds of personality are basically involved
  • -> Social dominator (competitive-dominance-driven prejudice)
  • -> RWA (threat-control driven prejudice)
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What are the 2 different branches SDO been split into?

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  1. SDO-D
    - social dominance orientation - Dominance
  2. SDO-E
    - Social dominance orientation - Anti-egalitarianism
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What does SDO-D posit?

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  • ideal society = a hierarchy of groups
  • since some are just inferior to other groups
  • BUT no one gorup should dominate
  • groups at bottom are just as deserving
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What does SDO-E posit?

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  • group equality should not be primary goal = unjust

- should focus on equalising conditions for different groups + give an equal change to succeed

37
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Differences in studnet’s respect for others (SOD score) and their openness (RWA predicts what?

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  • a lot of variance in their positive + negative intergroup attitudes

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