Anomie, Authoritarianism and Ethnocentrism: Update of a Classic Theme and an Empirical Test
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Are the sources of ethnocentrism rather more sociological than psychological in nature? In order to answer this question, we review a classic debate between sociologists and psychologists. From this debate we distil two implicit theoretical models which are transposed into explicit and competitive models. A number of lacunas are filled with recent theoretical contributions and, subsequently, these models are tested. It turns out that one’s social environment brings about anomic feelings that induce ethnocentrism. But these effects are for the major part mediated by a psychological characteristic, i.e. by authoritarianism.
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