Blogger2.Analysis of variables in the survey of world values among countries

 

Traditionally, values have been relegated to the realm of philosophy, with a metaphysical approach to logical reasoning and analysis. However, social surveys can provide narrative or precise quantitative measurements, and then empirically analyze the social meaning of values and historical evolution or the cross-interaction of different values. After several rounds of surveys, cross-generational data will be formed that spans many years, tracking the evolution of specific social values or value phenomena, which is important for rapidly changing societies. For example, Weber found that because the beliefs and values of Christianity's "God's chosen people" greatly influence the social and economic behavior of believers, and at a macro level, the degree of capital activity in the region where Christian ethics prevails tends to be higher (Weber, Kang Le, Jian Huimei, 2007). Thus, values reflect the social attitudes of social people, externalized in the form of behaviors, which lead to specific social phenomena or institutional manifestations.

The World Values Survey is a global survey that examines the values of the public and explores how they change over time and social policy changes. WVS is a collaborative effort of the members of the World Federation of Social Science Networks, which currently covers more than 100 countries and about 90% of the global population. It has been 37 years since the first survey was conducted in 1981, and the survey covers the most concerned and concerned value topics in the contemporary world, such as democratization, inclusion of foreign or minority groups, gender equality, religious roles and changes, and the impact of globalization. Respondents' perceptions of the environment, work, family, political interactions, national identity, culture, diversity, safety, and subjective well-being were also surveyed.

 

The differences in human values between different societies can be boiled down to two main aspects

1. The first dimension of "traditional values and rational values".

2. The second dimension of "survival vs self-expression values".

In China, I think the emphasis on traditional values is quite compromised. The sense of national pride is very strong, engraved in the bones of every Chinese. Another example is the absolute standard and traditional family values, such as marriage and parent-child relationships. The thinking of the older generation can be said to be more feudal, they feel that they must get married and have children, and it is shameful for divorce and abortion; However, the younger generation is not ashamed of this pride, they respect their own heart and freedom. Of course, it can be said that the older generation has a high sense of national pride and nationalism. In South Korea, there is not a lot of emphasis on these traditional values, and I think they are a relatively tolerant country. In Japan, I think it's more about cultural inheritance than traditional values, and they care about the unique culture of Japan and don't seem to be so interested in other things.

So for the second type, it includes security over freedom, which is very in line with Asian countries, I think China and Japan are more life than freedom, and will not make dangerous actions for the sake of temporary pleasure, but some time ago South Korea can be said to be not peaceful, there are often subway knife murders, this is the second article to say, distrust of the outside world does not accept minorities. Then China is a very tolerant country, because the land area is very large, so there are a lot of foreign friends in China, and he allows any law-abiding foreigner to settle down here. The values of self-expression are the opposite in all of these respects. They place a high value on subjective well-being, self-expression and quality of life. This is very good among Asian countries.

 

The survey was first launched in 1981 in 10 Western European countries. The survey results showed that there were significant differences in values such as politics, family, religion and gender, which attracted the attention and approval of Professor Ingelhardt.The World Values Survey (WVS) has expanded the scope of the Islamic countries after the fourth wave, and has so far completed six rounds of global surveys covering developed, developing and poor countries and regions, as well as regions of Islam, Christianity and Buddhism.

World values involve family, social, cultural and political issues. For example, the individual level includes life satisfaction, life goals and personal planning, religious beliefs, the pursuit of personal interests and collectivism.

The conduct of the World Values Survey is directed and managed by the World Values Survey Society. WVSA is a non-profit organization established in Stockholm, Sweden in 2003, and its Executive Committee drafted the WVS Charter, which was formally approved and implemented by the General Assembly in 2004. It stipulates the rights and obligations of member units and committees, fund management, investigation implementation rules, data collection, preservation and maintenance, etc., changing the situation in which EC was dominated by European and American countries in the early days, and promoting the World Values Survey to become one of the most formal, fair and equal large-scale surveys in the world. More than 1,000 papers and monographs in more than 20 languages have been published in journals, seminars and publishing houses, analysing and discussing human values from a variety of perspectives.