TY - BOOK ID - 73786813 TI - Measuring and mapping cultures : 25 years of comparative value surveys AU - Esmer, Yilmaz R. AU - Pettersson, Thorleif PY - 2007 SN - 9004158200 9789004158207 9786611926151 1281926159 9047419286 9789047419280 9781281926159 6611926151 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Social values. KW - Social surveys. KW - Culture. KW - Cultural sociology KW - Culture KW - Sociology of culture KW - Civilization KW - Popular culture KW - Community surveys KW - Surveys, Social KW - Social sciences KW - Surveys KW - Values KW - Social aspects KW - Research UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:73786813 AB - In 1981, the European and World Values surveys started the empirical investigations of value orientations on a global scale. This volume builds on these surveys, which now cover a time period of a quarter of a century. Two chapters discuss basic theoretical and methodological issues of value research, while four chapters focus on contemporary processes of value change: cultural globalization, individualization, secularization and democratization. These analyses of the data from the value surveys give new life to social science classics such as Tocqueville, Durkheim, Marx and Weber. The analyses are also of interest to the practitioners of economic and social development as well as educational and cultural policies. Contributors include: Chris Cochran, Yilmaz Esmer, Ronald Inglehart, Neil Nevitte, Shalom Schwartz, Thorleif Pettersson and Christian Welzel. This book was originally published as Volume 5 numbers 2-3 (2006) of Brill's journal ‘Comparative Sociology'. ER -