Chapter 7: Inventing Authoritarian Personalities

Since its discovery as an important issue for society, deliberations surrounding socialisation were motivated by a variety of different concerns. Childrearing was seized upon as a problem confronting the healthy development of society. At times it was also depicted as the solution to the problems of society. Proponents of a utopian vision of creating a new enlightened humanity through a scientific approach to socialisation competed with those who were interested in the more modest project of limiting the damage caused by incompetent parents. During the 1940s, the more utopian and reformist approaches to socialisation tended to give way to a growing body of opinion that regarded the prevailing ...

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