08 April 2022

A "World Cultural Map"


Posted by the World Values Survey.
The cultural map methodology developed by the WVSA Founder Ronald Inglehart and the WVSA Vice-President Christian Welzel asserts that there are two major dimensions of cross cultural variation in the world: traditional values versus secular-rational values and survival values versus self-expression values. The global cultural map shows how scores of societies are located on these two dimensions.

Cited by David Brooks in The New York Times

4 comments:

  1. The fact that they chose to put Germany under Protestant Europe makes me question the whole thing's thoroughness.

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  2. Perhaps my old Irish eyes are missing it, but I don't see the Emerald Isle. Ireland has about ten times the population of Luxembourg. Anyway, where to put it? Head scratching.

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  3. Also curious where I fall, personally, on these axes. Maybe not in the upper right quadrant, depending on how these values are determined. Bad for a person with an essentially leftist ideology. A minefield.

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