Assertion Adorno devised several Likert attitude scales which revealed a clustering of traits which...........

Sociology Preliminary Society, community, association and instiution, social groups

Assertion: Adorno devised several Likert attitude scales, which revealed a clustering of traits, which he termed authoritarianism.

Reason: The concept of ethnocentric personality serves to link the emergence of ethnic identity to the processes concerned with the formation of intense out-group hostility.

Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A

A is true but R is false

A is false but R is true

Explanation:

Authoritarian Personality A term coined by Theodora Adorno in 1950, describes attitudes towards other ‘out-groups’ in American society, such as homosexuals and ethnic minorities, and maintained that antagonism towards one ‘out-group’ (e.g. Jews) seldom existed in isolation, but formed part of a constellation of attitudes.