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Value Change in Germany – A New DFG Project at IUB

   

On March 15, 2006, the IUB research project “Causes and Consequences of the Post-industrial Value Change: Germany in Global Comparison” started. Headed by Christian Welzel, Professor of Political Science, the project is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) for a three-year period with in total 560,000 euros.

[ Mar 23, 2006]  The project aims at evaluating different hypotheses concerning the causes, the dynamics, and the consequences of value changes in German society that have been taking place over the past decades. Using a representative survey involving about 2000 adult German participants the study is part of the global World Value Survey, which will be conducted simultaneously in more than 50 countries, covering social, economic, and political value orientation, and which continues a time series of data collected since 1981. One of the hypotheses the IUB scientist evaluate interprets an emancipatory value change towards increased self-determination of persons as a result of increased autonomy experienced both in the working and living environment. A chief consequence of such a value change would be a declining readiness of individuals for compliance that in turn is expected to have effected a substantial impact on institutional, organizational, and political management, especially on democracy.

 


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