Cultural Comparisons of Beliefs and Values: Applying the Grid-Group Approach to the World Values Survey

Chai, Sun‐Ki; Liu, Ming; Kim, Min-Sun

doi:10.1891/1942-0617.1.2.193

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“…First, Cultural values are guiding worldviews-or "ways of life"-that define a society (Inglehart et al 1998, Milton 2013. They encompass the dominant normative, attitudinal, and behavioral patterns that exist within and between collectives (Stigler et al 1990, Chai et al 2009, Kitayama and Cohen 2010, and have been used to explain social constructions of risk (Dake 1991), responses to environmental policies (Price et al 2014), cultural differences in environmental attitudes (Steg and Sievers 2000), and behavioral intentions (Yazdanpanah et al 2014). Secondly, Individual values are fundamental, guiding principles in life that reflect the most basic elements of cognition (Allport et al 1960, Rokeach 1973.…”

Section: Multiple Levels Of the Value Conceptmentioning

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Incorporating multilevel values into the social-ecological systems framework

Riper¹,

Thiel²,

Penker³

et al. 2018

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ABSTRACT. The social-ecological systems framework has guided investigations of complex interactions among ecosystems, society, and economies. In recent years, academics and practitioners have taken steps to strengthen this framework by calling for more systematic engagement with the cognitive and affective bases of human behavior. We suggest research that engages with multilevel values (i.e., individual, cultural, assigned) will be better positioned to understand how and why people cooperate in natural resource comanagement situations, and in turn, develop more effective strategies for mitigating and adapting to a changing world. We review three conceptualizations of the value concept operating within environmental governance regimes to offer a deeper understanding of how multilevel values fit within the social-ecological systems framework. Drawing on a conceptual model of these relationships, we share results from three example studies that demonstrate how values and governance can be more explicitly integrated in future research. We aim to stimulate a dialogue about the mutual benefits that can emerge from a fuller characterization of the relationship between values and environmental governance to manage for complexities of social-ecological systems.

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Section: Multiple Levels Of the Value Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Incorporating multilevel values into the social-ecological systems framework

Riper¹,

Thiel²,

Penker³

et al. 2018

E&S

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“…Hence, individualistic cultural forces have a self-enhancing effect on individualists' responses toward socially desired traits-in this case, risk. Conversely, strongly hierarchical and bureaucratic cultures (e.g., South Korean and Chinese cultures, reviewed in Chai et al, 2009;Schwartz & Bilsky, 1987) have many externally mandated social constraints, encompass individualistic acts that are considered deviant, and exhibit a preference for procedures that conform to social customs. These facts suggest that collectivists may encounter difficulties in generating unique and creative ideas necessary for innovation.…”

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Understanding Cross-National Differences in Risk Through a Localized Cultural Perspective

Park

Kim

Zhang

2015

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We examine cross-national differences in attitudes and decisions toward risk by comparing Chinese (collectivists), South Korean (collectivists, but with distinctive localized cultural norms), and Australian (individualists) undergraduate student samples from a balanced cross-cultural perspective. Individual evaluation revealed that risk was least favored by the Chinese students in their attitudes and choices, followed by the South Korean and Australian students. Unlike previous results from South Korean and Australian student samples that exhibited unique shifts toward risky choices indicative of group polarization, the Chinese students did not tend to take greater risks when making group versus individual decisions (i.e., risky shift). This was regardless of the group's gender composition, although the pattern did vary according to financially oriented risk domains. The implications of these results are discussed in terms of each country's indigenous sociocultural norms.

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“…Caulkins, 2008;Evans, 2008;Mars, 2008) and risk perceptions and environmental issues, as highlighted by Caulkins (2009). It has also been used to compare different cultures, in terms of beliefs and values (Chai et al, 2009), to study tourism and migration (Duval, 2006), and, more recently, to explain the global economic crisis (Hindmoor, 2010). Douglas' theory has therefore seen many applications in different domains, but we count only a limited number of papers that use grid-group analysis to study the scientific community.…”

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Scientific community through grid-group analysis

Cerroni

Simonella

2014

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Grid-group map was introduced by Mary Douglas as a tool of anthropological analysis. Several studies have been applying this approach to study social phenomena, but very few concerning the scientific community. The paper aims to bridge the current gap, building sociological ideal-types in the scientific community based on grid-group analysis. Firstly we illustrate the main features of Douglas' grid-group analysis, until the latest studies developed in social sciences. Then, we apply Douglas' approach to a sample of scientists, reporting scholars' stances in the grid-group plane. Finally we suggest a new elaboration of grid-group analysis and some ideas for further research.

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Cultural Comparisons of Beliefs and Values: Applying the Grid-Group Approach to the World Values Survey

Cited by 45 publications

References 25 publications

Incorporating multilevel values into the social-ecological systems framework

Incorporating multilevel values into the social-ecological systems framework

Understanding Cross-National Differences in Risk Through a Localized Cultural Perspective

Scientific community through grid-group analysis

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