Power Orientation and McCarthyism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2206891 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Sokol, Robert J Sokol (0000-0003-1771-9786, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 443-452 |
| Publication date | 1968-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/224505 |
| PMID | 5694223 |
| OpenAlex | W1982497016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This report of a 1958 survey in a New England city supports earlier studies showing that McCarthysim was related to socioeconomic status, religion, and party preference. The basic objective, however, is to present data which support the proposition that one of the common cross-strata variables associated with McCarthyism was a commitment or receptive attitude to the use of power. There is a general confirmation of this idea with four different indexes of power orientation and with religion and education controlled. A respecification suggests that authoritarianism is more effective as a determinant of a pro McCarthy sentiment when a socially derived power orientation does not already have this effect
Authoritarianism · Democracy · Economics · Epistemology · Geometry · Microeconomics · Orientation (vector space) · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Preference · Proposition · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1975 - 1975 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |