Value patterns in Europe and the United States: is there a transatlantic rift?
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Conflicts and tensions. ed. / Helmut K. Anheier; Yudhishthir Raj Isar. Los Angeles [u.a.]: SAGE Publications Inc., 2007. p. 241-252 (The Culture and Globalization Series; Vol. 1).
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Value patterns in Europe and the United States
T2 - is there a transatlantic rift?
AU - Welzel, Christian
AU - Deutsch, Franziska
PY - 2007/1/1
Y1 - 2007/1/1
N2 - We examine empirical evidence for a widespread stereotypical assumption: the alleged cultural rift between Europe and the US. With respect to individualistic values emphasizing human self-expression, we find little division between Western Europe and North America. Rather, they are mostly unified as the individualistic, liberal and democratic West against the ‘rest’ of the world. By contrast, we observe a massive transatlantic separation regarding community norms. Despite internal divisions, the US is on average considerably more religious, rigid, and absolute in its moral values than any society of continental Western Europe. Moral value rigidity is not a reflection of ‘American ...
AB - We examine empirical evidence for a widespread stereotypical assumption: the alleged cultural rift between Europe and the US. With respect to individualistic values emphasizing human self-expression, we find little division between Western Europe and North America. Rather, they are mostly unified as the individualistic, liberal and democratic West against the ‘rest’ of the world. By contrast, we observe a massive transatlantic separation regarding community norms. Despite internal divisions, the US is on average considerably more religious, rigid, and absolute in its moral values than any society of continental Western Europe. Moral value rigidity is not a reflection of ‘American ...
KW - Politics
KW - Gender and Diversity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84950973980&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/e28f7169-fb4c-313a-8be1-bfb46f9fc967/
U2 - 10.4135/9781446214671.n23
DO - 10.4135/9781446214671.n23
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781412934718
SN - 9781412934725
T3 - The Culture and Globalization Series
SP - 241
EP - 252
BT - Conflicts and tensions
A2 - Anheier, Helmut K.
A2 - Isar, Yudhishthir Raj
PB - SAGE Publications Inc.
CY - Los Angeles [u.a.]
ER -