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Activity Number: 329
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 8, 2006 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #306581
Title: Is There a Homogeneity in Value Orientations within European Societies?
Author(s): Peter P. Mohler*+
Companies: ZUMA
Address: P.O. Box 122155, Mannheim, 68072, Germany
Keywords: latent class ; homogeneity ; within country ; cross-cultural ; surveys ; values
Abstract:

The Schwartz' value items are among the most widely used today. Schwartz assumes universal patterns across cultures, languages and social systems. This assumption has been tested using a short (21 item) Schwartz scale and the data from two consecutive waves of the European Social Survey. The data do not support the general universal pattern assumption, indeed. This leads to the suspicion that there are third, intervening variables which distort the universal pattern. Recently developed techniques (Latent Class) will be used to identify latent classes which are non-comparable, singular and thus culture specific, while other classes follow the universal pattern. The paper will identify such culture specific classes and discuss the issue of within culture homogeneity as a problem for cross-cultural surveys.

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