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The Sociology of Nazism
William BrusteinJürgen W. Faltersubject
050402 sociology0504 sociologySociology and Political Science05 social sciencesPrincipal (computer security)050602 political science & public administrationMass societyNazismSociologySocial Sciences (miscellaneous)0506 political scienceEpistemologydescription
In a previous paper, we tested a number of critical hypotheses derived from the three principal explanations of the sociology of Nazism. Our major finding was that the mass society, lower middle-class party of protest, and political confessionalism theses are empirically flawed. In this article, we apply an interest-based theory to the sociology of blue-collar Nazism. Using a sample of 15,006 workers who joined the Nazi Party between 1925 and 1932, we test the validity of our interest-based theory. The data demonstrate significant support for an interest-based account of Nazi Party working-class joining.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994-07-01 | Rationality and Society |