Environmentalism, Values, and Social Change

Cotgrove, Stephen; Duff, Andrew

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“…Cotgrove and Duff (1981) offer a more nuanced perspective, suggesting that 'industrialist' individuals who derive their livelihood from possibly polluting activities tend to be highly educated, too. Indeed, considering the case of climate change, Kahan et al (2012) provide survey evidence from the U.S. that more knowledge does not translate into higher support for scientific work.…”

Section: Income and Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding environmental policy preferences: New evidence from Brazil

Aklin

Bayer

Harish

et al. 2013

Ecological Economics

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We examine the relationship between socio-economic factors and public opinion on environmental policies in Brazil, drawing on a survey conducted in June 2012. There are few systematic studies of the determinants of environmental preferences in emerging economies, and Brazil is a particularly interesting case because of its democratic political system, rapid economic growth, and importance for the global environment. In general, we find that the Brazilian public is highly supportive of environmental protection. To explain variation in environmental preferences, we focus on the effects of income and education. Many previous studies suggest that both should have positive effects, but the empirical evidence is mixed. Indeed, we find that income has no effect on environmental preferences. However, education is a strong predictor of environmental preferences. While college education is not necessary for environmental awareness, there is a large difference between Brazilians with primary and secondary education. For policy, the findings imply that investment in secondary education can raise environmental awareness, regardless of income levels. * We thank Leany Lemos for providing us with the survey data. We are thankful to Vivian Coyne, Lisandra Flach, Pedro Silva, Bettina Trueb, and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. All errors remain ours.

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Section: Income and Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding environmental policy preferences: New evidence from Brazil

Aklin

Bayer

Harish

et al. 2013

Ecological Economics

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“…Thus, the occupations chosen by members of the service class are said to correspond to these two dimensions of materialism and postmaterialism. Cotgrove and Duff's (1981) study showed indirectly that materialists are found more among managerial and technocratic occupations, e.g. managers and administrators, while postmaterialists are more common in social and cultural occupations.…”

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The Rise of `New' Social Classes within the Service Class in The Netherlands

2007

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abstract:The employment structure of The Netherlands and other advanced countries is evolving from industrial to postindustrial. Yet existing social class schemata, like the well-known Erikson, Goldthorpe and Portocarero (EGP) class schema, were constructed for an industrial employment structure. In this study, we adjust the EGP class schema to account for this transformation by using new class theories. We distinguish a 'new' class of social and cultural specialists and an 'old' class of technocrats with both a higher and a lower version in the service class. Our research question concerns the extent to which the adjusted EGP class schema is a better predictor of people's political orientation than the standard EGP class schema. We assume that the 'new' classes differ in their political orientation from the 'old' classes. We also assume that, during their formation, the 'new' classes become increasingly effective in explaining differences in people's political orientation. Experts' knowledge is employed to classify the occupations. In addition, we use the data of 34,856 respondents gathered between 1970 and 2003 in The Netherlands. The adjusted EGP class schema explains people's political orientation substantially better than the standard EGP class schema; the 'new' classes vote significantly more for leftist parties and differ substantially in their political orientation from the 'old' classes. Furthermore, our results show that the political orientation of the low-grade social and cultural specialists has become more crystallized since 1970.

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“…This discrepancy was already discussed by Buttel and Flinn (1978) and is potentially formed during the process of adolescence when young people acquire and stabilise their own views (e.g. Cotgrove & Duff, 1981;Chawla, 1988). The younger ones tend to have a more environmental world view (see Blaikie, 1992;Bogner & Wilhelm, 1996), perhaps explained by the shorter exposition of young people to the competing traditional belief system favouring environmental degradation (see above), as well as by the scepticism the regarding society's value system (e.g.…”

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Environmental perception of French and some Western European secondary school students

Bogner

Wiseman²

2002

Eur J Psychol Educ

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This paper describes, by focusing on factor analytic structures, pupils' reactions towards the utilisation and preservation of nature. A previously hypothesised model based on these two domains (comprised of 5 primary factors) was shown to be valid for four different Western European pupil samples: CR, D, DK, IRL. The empirical basis of this present paper comprises a survey of about 900 French pupils of both genders aged between 11 and 16 years from rural areas who responded to a paper-and-pencil questionnaire. Data from the remaining European samples added some 4000 respondents based on the same objective test each. The purpose of the present study was five-fold: Firstly, to test and confirm the hypothesised primary and secondary factor structure for the combined data set. Secondly, to apply the methods of linear structural relationship analysis to test the existence of two higher-order factors (the domains: "Preservation" and "Utilisation"). Thirdly, to investigate any age or gender effect in the primary factors, Fourthly, to provide an age-adjusted empirical instrument for evaluation purposes of educational programmes featuring conservation and environmental protection, Finally, to compare the means within-region factor scores in anticipation of substantial between-region differences, These differences followed a rather consistent pattern supporting the interpretation that "utilising" nature is negatively correlated with positive environmental reactions.

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Environmentalism, Values, and Social Change

Cited by 118 publications

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Understanding environmental policy preferences: New evidence from Brazil

Understanding environmental policy preferences: New evidence from Brazil

The Rise of `New' Social Classes within the Service Class in The Netherlands

Environmental perception of French and some Western European secondary school students

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