The Israeli sociologist Shalom Schwartz developed in the '90es a model for cultural values and a map of where different parts of the world belong in thiscontext. He asked people in almost every country about how important all the values his international team could think of were to them.Schwartz's theory and a 'map' placing many countries within his model is more extensively described in my book that you can download using the link a the bottom of the page.When we think of values and attitudes it is not a given that a definition from one culture translates into another culture. The value or attitude itself may beidiosyncratic to the culture in which it is found, or it may be in one family of values in one culture and a totally different family in another. An example is attitudes towards work.
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In some cultures the work domain is seen as an arena where you can gain power, in other cultures focus is on work as a contribution to society or an arena for human connections. Machismo is in South America more a description of showing feelings in general; in the US only display of 'manly' feelings is included in the concept. In Hungary they can't agree about what agreeableness is - or if it is good or bad.Values that don't share their conceptual meaning across all examined cultures are not included in Schwartz's model,.
So something important to your culture may not be reflected in the model.When Schwartz analyzed the averages of data from each country he found that they fell into seven different clusters: Embeddedness Status quo; avoid inclinations of individuals that might disturb the traditional order. Harmony Protection of environment, world at peace. Egalitarian Commitment Transcendence of selfish interests; helpfulness, social justice, and world at peace; equality.
Intellectual Autonomy Creativity, curiosity. Affective Autonomy Stimulation, excitement.
Mastery Active efforts to modify one's surroundings and get ahead of other people. Hierarchy Legitimacy of hierarchical role and resource allocation.The values clusters could be drawn in a circle where opposing values would not be strong at the same time. In countries where curiosity was highly valued there was not strong support for maintaining the status quo.In the figure there are three clear juxtapositions:. Hierarchy vs. Egalitarianism.
Mastery vs. Harmony. Embeddedness vs. AutonomyThe circle structure doesn't just delineate these three 'axes'. Cultures normally don't 'cross-over', so you will not find cultures that are simultaneously high on Harmony, Hierarchy, and Autonomy. Neither are Embeddedness, Mastery, and Egalitarianism likely combinations.In most cases countries on the same continent would come out close to each other on the map.South American cultures typically clustered right in the middle of the figure.The English speaking countries highly valued Mastery and had higher values on Hierarchy than on Egalitarianism.
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