Title: The Nature And Meaning of Dogmatism by Milton Rokeach
Headings: The Nature And Meaning of Dogmatism
The Nature And Meaning of Dogmatism
Milton Rokeach
The Article in Full
GENERAL SETTING FOR A COGNITIVE REPRESENTATION OF DOGMATISM
A COGNITIVE REPRESENTATION OF DOGMATISM
DOGMATISM DISTINGUISHED FROM RIGIDITY
POSTULATES INVOLVING THE COGNITIVE STRUCTURE OF DOGMATISM
POSTULATES INVOLVING THE COGNITIVE CONTENT OF DOGMATISM
SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR FURTHER THEORY AND RESEARCH ON AUTHORITARIANISM AND INTOLERANCE
SUMMARY
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Content: Whereas dogmatism refers to total cognitive organizations of ideas and beliefs into relatively closed ideological systems, rigidity, when genotypically conceived, refers solely to the degree of isolation between regions (7, 12) or to a "property of a functional boundary which prevents communication between neighboring regions" (6, p. 157); when phenotypically conceived, rigidity is denned in terms of the way a person or animal attacks, solves, or learns specific tasks and problems (11). Thus, dogmatism is seen as a higher order and more complexly organized form of resistance to change. While dogmatism may well be hypothesized to lead to rigidity in solving specific problems, the converse is not necessarily the case. Rats, the feebleminded, and the brain-injured, for example, can be characterized as rigid (also compulsive, fixated, perseverative, inflexible) but hardly as dogmatic. Furthermore, whereas rigidity refers to person-to-thing or animal-to-thing relationships, dogmatism is manifested almost necessarily in situations involving person-to-person communication. Thus, we speak of a person as tying his shoelaces or solving an arithmetic problem rigidly, but of a profess