Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource, 35 S.
Series Statement:
ZUMA-Arbeitsbericht Bd. 2006/05
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Vinken, Henk East Asian value surveys
DDC:
303.372072095
Abstract:
Abstract: This paper aims to contribute to social scientific work towards enhancing the cultural fit of comparative values surveys projects on a conceptual level both for Western and East Asian survey research communities and their publics. It starts with noting that, after a long period in which Western values were regarded superior ('orientalism'), in recent decades certain East Asian and specifically Confucian values are much celebrated ('reversed orientalism'). Yet, most contemporary cross-culturally comparative values surveys, also those surveying East Asian publics, still build on Western, universalist, individualist values conceptions only. Universalism claims values concepts have an absolute nature, are part of the basic human (psychological) condition, and are thus applicable in any cultural context. Particularism, more likely to be found in the East Asian context, claims that at least some concepts depend on the social context, can thus not be generalized, but consequently are uniq
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URN:
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-200589
