Journal article
Position and Disposition: The Contextual Development of Human Values
Social forces, Vol.91(4), pp.1499-1528
06/2013
DOI: 10.1093/sf/sot045
Abstract
Research on the importance of values often focuses primarily on one domain of social predictors (e.g., economic) or limits its scope to a single dimension of values. We conduct a simultaneous analysis of a wide range of theoretically important social influences and a more complete range of individuals' value orientations, focusing both on value ratings and rankings. Results indicate that traditional institutions such as religion and parenthood are associated with more concern for the welfare of others and maintaining the status quo, whereas more individually oriented occupational factors like higher income and self-employment are linked to achievement and change-related values. Yet several factors, such as education and gender, have complex associations when individual values are examined as part of a coherent system rather than in isolation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Position and Disposition: The Contextual Development of Human Values
- Creators
- Kyle C Longest - Furman UniversitySteven Hitlin - University of IowaStephen Vaisey - Duke University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Social forces, Vol.91(4), pp.1499-1528
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- DOI
- 10.1093/sf/sot045
- ISSN
- 0037-7732
- eISSN
- 1534-7605
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/2013
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology
- Record Identifier
- 9984306234802771
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