{"id":11368,"date":"2019-01-02T07:38:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=11368"},"modified":"2019-01-02T07:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T06:42:24","slug":"inglehart-welzel-cultural-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2019\/01\/inglehart-welzel-cultural-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Inglehart\u2013Welzel Cultural Map"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Source: World Value Survey<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The plot above is the result of the “World Value Survey”. It assumes that there are two major dimensions of cross cultural variation in the world:\u00a0“Traditional values versus secular-rational values” and\u00a0“Survival values versus self-expression values”.<\/p>\n

Sounds interesting at least for 3 seconds. Then we are discovering the strange axis labels – the opposite of tradition is lost tradition not rational value. The authors explain traditional values by the importance of religion, parent-child ties, deference to authority and traditional family values. People who embrace these values also reject divorce, abortion, euthanasia and suicide. These societies have high levels of national pride and a nationalistic outlook.<\/p>\n

As a protestant,\u00a0Inglehart\u2013Welzel put me top right “having less or no\u00a0traditional values, no religion, parent-child ties, no need for authority and traditional family values”. According to them I am “pro divorce, abortion, euthanasia and suicide with low level of national pride” – which is clearly wrong, just by a simple example.<\/p>\n

I am quite sure that a \u00a0single item analysis – lets say divorce rate vs Gross Domestic Product would compare countries much better.\u00a0But do we even need such kind of science? The whole scheme is dangerously simplified – producing more stereotypes that I would have expected from any political scientists.<\/p>\n

Damit sto\u00dfe ich nun wieder an ihre alte Frage an mich: wie ich mich denn in dieser Zeit als Deutscher f\u00fchle? Meine Antwort mu\u00df sein: Gar nicht. So wie H\u00f6lderlin einst sagte, es sei die Zeit der K\u00f6nige nicht mehr, so ist nun die Zeit der V\u00f6lker nicht mehr. (Heinrich Bl\u00fccher<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

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The plot above is the result of the “World Value Survey”. It assumes that there are two major dimensions of cross cultural variation in the world:\u00a0“Traditional values versus secular-rational values” and\u00a0“Survival values versus self-expression values”. Sounds interesting at least for 3 seconds. Then we are discovering the strange axis labels – the opposite of tradition … Continue reading Inglehart\u2013Welzel Cultural Map<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3044,1595,3090],"class_list":["post-11368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-eu","tag-ethics","tag-nationalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11368"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11399,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11368\/revisions\/11399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}