Toward an Anthropology of Dogmatism: Maladjustment, Modernization, and Martin Luther King

Abstract

The paper has two main parts. The first presents research and prima facie reasons for suspecting inverse correlation between the Rokeach Dogmatism Scale and the Inkeles Overall Modernity Scale. The second part suggests (a) that the more “democratic,” “openminded,” “pluralistic,” and “tolerant” a society, the more maladjusted to it will be Traditional Man and (b) that an example of such a man is Martin Luther King.