The Frankfurt School and its Critics

Bottomore, Tom

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“…The authoritarian personality theory can be situated in the broader context of the Frankfurt School (Jay, 1996;Bottomore, 2002;Tarr, 2011), the key members of which include:…”

Section: The Authoritarian Personality Theorymentioning

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Employee silence and the authoritarian personality

Timming

Johnstone

2015

International Journal of Organizational Analysis

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Acknowledgements: We want to thank the editor and reviewers for helpful suggestions on the manuscript. We also want to thank Matthias Benzer for his advice on Adorno. AbstractPurpose: Drawing from Adorno et al 's (1950) The Authoritarian Personality, this paper seeks to explain why some workers reject participation in decision-making on principle, preferring instead to defer to managerial authority and remain silent. Approach: The paper reviews the literatures on employee voice and silence and then builds a conceptual framework that can be used to explain employee silence in relation to personality structures. Findings: It is argued that some employees have personality structures that make them more susceptible to anti-democratic thoughts. Potentially fascistic personalities, as measured by the Fscale, are expected to derive pleasure in submission to the will of management. Implications: The paper has implications for political and social psychologists, especially those seeking to understand how best to promote employee voice in the workplace. Originality: This study makes an original contribution to the employee voice and silence literatures by being among the first of its kind to examine the political psychology of fascism in the micro-context of the workplace.

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“…The authoritarian personality theory can be situated in the broader context of the Frankfurt School (Jay, 1996;Bottomore, 2002;Tarr, 2011), the key members of which include:…”

Section: The Authoritarian Personality Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Employee silence and the authoritarian personality

Timming

Johnstone

2015

International Journal of Organizational Analysis

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“…There was also the Frankfurt School, temporary exiles in New York during World War II. Despite being critical theorists, some of them tended to emphasise subjective psychology and to avoid history and political economy (Bottomore, 2002). From around 1980 to 2007, this third group's critical Marxist approach, the one most likely one to address the Holocaust, lost influence, although today Marxism is becoming more popular, as a means to analyse today's problems, which partly stem from the next and fourth group's work.…”

Section: Critical Theorymentioning

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Young Children’s Human Rights: a sociological analysis

Alderson¹

2012

Int J Child Rights

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Children tend to be missing from the literature on human rights. Sociology can help to fill the gap by providing evidence about the importance and benefits of recognising children's human rights, the dangers of not doing so, and joint rights-promoting work by adults and children. However, sociology has paid relatively little attention to human rights, and to the related topics of the Holocaust, human nature, real bodies, universal principles and moral imperatives. This paper examines splits in sociology around a central absence, which could partly explain these omissions. Then it considers how inter-disciplinary approaches and critical realism can help to theorise and validate "the inherent dignity and...the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family". The youngest children's rights illuminate meanings in all human rights, which depend less on the rational person approach than on recognising human nature, vulnerability and solidarity interacting with social structures.

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“…It can be an obstacle to emancipation when it is a form of false consciousness that deludes individuals about the nature of their interests. Critical social theory aims to address this possibility by freeing actors from the self-imposed domination and false consciousness that may result from ideology that is not challenged (Held, 1980;Geuss, 1981;Bottomore, 1984;Best and Kellner, 1991).…”

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The Stakeholder Dimension in Information Systems Evaluation

McAulay

Doherty

Keval

2002

Journal of Information Technology

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This study used an earlier critique of the cultural sciences for exploring the ideological basis for the evaluation of outsourcing. Questionnaire and interview responses are presented. These incorporate a range of evaluative criteria, which together represent an indicative list of the bene ts and risks of outsourcing. The paper initially suggests that different stakeholders might be impacted on in different ways by bene ts and risks. It is suggested that information technology outsourcing evaluation might thus be partial and not neutral in its impact on stakeholders. However, the differences and similarities between stakeholders suggest a subtle interplay of ideological concerns that does not totally deny the interests of all but the dominant stakeholders. Although the evaluation may be partial this does not deny the potential for those who might be presumed to be disadvantaged for making personal gains. However, in making personal gains, an ideology based on economic interests is furthered, thus occluding the opportunity for autonomous and responsible engagement with the process of evaluation.

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The Frankfurt School and its Critics

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Employee silence and the authoritarian personality

Employee silence and the authoritarian personality

Young Children’s Human Rights: a sociological analysis

The Stakeholder Dimension in Information Systems Evaluation

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