TY - JOUR A1 - Darowska, Lucyna T1 - How the Fascist and Non-Fascist Self May Develop: Else Frenkel-Brunswik’s qualitative analyses in >The Authoritarian Personality< and their comparison to studies on resisters JF - Serendipities – Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 1-2 (2022), pp. 74-101 [Online ISSN 2521-0947] [tidsskrift.dk/Serendipities/article/view/132979/180198] N2 - In the context of several authoritarian regimes around the world, there is growing interest in explaining these processes of change. This article follows the tradition of the social sciences in striving to understand the social mechanisms of motivational structures of the self in interaction with societal contexts. The author draws on the qualitative contributions to the studies on fascism by the Berkeley University Group, published in 1950 as >The Authoritarian Personality< by Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford (1950). This article analyses the qualitative sections of the Study presented by Else Frenkel-Brunswik and compares these with the results of selected studies on resisters. Based on this analysis, the article discusses the results of the comparison and the relevance of Frenkel-Brunswik’s contribution, as well as the implications for further research. Y1 - 2022 ER -