Changing values, persisting cultures : case studies in value change / edited by Thorleif Pettersson and Yilmaz Esmer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pettersson, Thorleif, 1940-

Esmer, Yilmaz R.

Series:

European values studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 12.

European values studies, 1568-5926 ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social values--Cross-cultural studies.

Social values.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2008]

Summary:

In 1981, the European and World Values surveys started the empirical investigation of cultural values on a global scale. This volume builds upon the findings of these surveys and analyzes value change in a number of key countries around the globe. The authors track value change and stability in their respective countries during the last decade (the last two decades where data are available) of the 20th century. All authors have been actively involved in value surveys and have a great deal of expertise in countries that they write on. Thus, the volume is a valuable complement to studies that deal with the topic from a global perspective without providing any detail about individual societies. The countries covered are: Argentina, Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United States.

Contents:

Part 2 The Americas

A North America

Chapter 1 America the Traditional / Wayne E. Baker 9

Chapter 2 Cleavages, Value Gaps and Regime Support: Evidence from Canada and 26 Other Societies / Neil Nevitte, Mebs Kanji 45

B Latin America

Chapter 3 Value Change in Mexico, 1980-2000: Evidence from the World Values Surveys / Miguel Basanez, Alejandro Moreno 75

Chapter 4 Cultural Trends in Argentina: 1983-2000 / Marita Carballo 95

Part 3 Europe

A Northern Europe

Chapter 5 Changing Swedish Civic Orientations: From Solidarity to Activism? / Thorleif Pettersson 123

Chapter 6 Denmark: Solid or Fluid? / Peter Gundelach 149

Chapter 7 What Happened to Dutch Values? Investigating General and Differential Trends in Values in the Netherlands / Loek Halman, Ruud Luijkx 175

B Central Europe

Chapter 8 Civic Values and Value Change in Austria and Germany / Franziska Deutsch, Christian Welzel, Julian Wucherpfennig 199

C The Mediterranean

Chapter 9 French Values: Between Southern and Northern Europe / Pierre Brechon 219

Chapter 10 Values and Generations in Spain / Juan Diez-Nicolas 247

Chapter 11 Islam, Gender, Democracy and Values: The Case of Turkey, 1990-2001 / Yilmaz Esmer 275

Part 4 Asia

Chapter 12 Value Change and Democratization in South Korea / Soo Young Auh 305

Part 5 Africa

Chapter 13 The Constant of Transformation: Eleven Years of Value Change in South Africa, 1990-2001 / Hennie Kotze 335.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-381) and index.

ISBN:

9789004162341

9004162348

OCLC:

172980723