Adorno A03

Question 1

What one strength of Adorno’s research?

Answer 1

P: There is evidence that authoritarians are obedient.
E: Elms and Milgram 1966 interviewed 20 fully obedient participants from Milgram’s study . They scored higher on the F scale than 20 disobedient participants.
E: Suggests and give proof that many people share the same characteristics as the people with Authoritarian personality.

Question 2

What is one limitation of Adorno’s study?

Answer 2

P: Authoritarian cannot explain a whole country’s behaviour.
E: Millions Of Germans displayed obedient and anti semantic behaviour - but can’t have all head the same personality. But it’s unlikely they all had the AP, they all juts were in the Nazi state.
E: therefore a social identity may be a better explanation.

Question 3

What is another limitation of Adorno’s study?

Answer 3

P: The F scale is politically biased.
E: Christie and Jahoda suggest the F scale aims to measure tendency towards extreme right wing (trump), but right wing and left wing authoritarianism both insist on complete obedience to political authority.
E: His explanation explains it in a political view not a dispositional explanation .