Toward an Anthropology of Dogmatism

II. Traditionalism, Modernism, Existentialism, and the Counter Culture: All in the Family

Bibliographic Data

ID13675524
AuthorsStanley Stark (Michigan State University, corresponding author)
Year1971
Volume29
Issue3
Pages819-830
Publication date1971-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.1971.29.3.819
PMID5124165
OpenAlexW1971852437
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited15

This paper is the second in a series designed to “anthropologize” the psychology of dogmatism, i.e., to suggest that there are important cultural implications in the Rokeach concept and in certain dogmatism research findings. The series embeds closedmindedness-openmindedness within the Traditionalism-Modernism model of personality. Thus, Traditional Man is authoritarian, closedminded, dogmatic, and intolerant; and this shows itself in his attitudes toward blood transfusions and heart transplants. But, the paper suggests, Traditional Man is also someone who appreciates the analogical, the animistic, the ascriptive, the autistic, the charismatic, the communionistic, the distinctive, the dreamy, the einfuehlunglich, the familial, the fantastic, the geisteswissenschaftlich, the gemeinschaftlich, the humanistic, the idealistic, the inner creative, the intangible, the intuitional, the I-Thou, the moralistic, the normative, the personalistic, the phenomenological, the primary process, the religious, the romantic, the spiritual, the subjective, the supernatural, the verstehenlich, etc. Hence the paper suggests that Traditional Man—even in his blue-collar, hard-hat variety—may be considered to possess considerable “existentialist” and “counter-culturist” capability. The illustration is Archie Bunker of the TV program All in the Family

Authoritarianism · Democracy · Epistemology · Existentialism · Forgiveness · Humanism · Humanities · Normative · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Theology · Traditionalism · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Social Psychology · Values and Moral Education

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