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In 1981, the European and World Values surveys started the empirical investigation of cultural values on a global scale. This volume builds upon the findings of these surveys and analyzes value change in a number of key countries around the globe. The authors track value change and stability in their respective countries during the last decade (the last two decades where data are available) of the 20th century. All authors have been actively involved in value surveys and have a great deal of expertise in countries that they write on. Thus, the volume is a valuable complement to studies that deal with the topic from a global perspective without providing any detail about individual societies. The countries covered are: Argentina, Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United States.

Internationaler Vergleich --- Wert --- Wertwandel --- Wertwandel. --- Social values --- Social change --- Valeurs sociales --- Etudes transculturelles

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In Dworkin’s master work, the central thesis is that all areas of value depend on one another. This is one, big thing that the hedgehog knows, in contrast to the fox, who knows many little things. Dworkin’s understanding of the relationship—between ethics, morality, and political morality—is significantly revised and also greatly elaborated. He argues that “dignity” is the essential core of living well and that a satisfactory account of dignity would, in turn, point to two principles. The first states that it is objectively important that each person’s life go well; and the second that each person has a special responsibility for identifying what counts as success in his or her own life. Dworkin believes that values cohere and that in order to defend that coherence he has to take up a broad variety of philosophical issues that are not normally treated in one book. He discusses the metaphysics of value, the character of truth, the nature of interpretation, the conditions of agreement and disagreement, the phenomenon of moral responsibility and the problem of free will as well as more substantive issues of ethical, moral and legal theory.

General ethics --- Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law --- Values --- Ethics --- Ethics. --- Values. --- Axiology --- Worth --- Aesthetics --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Metaphysics --- Psychology --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Morale --- Valeurs sociales

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Dans un siècle marqué par la déchristianisation et l'individualisme, il est intéressant de voir qu'en Grande-Bretagne on assiste à un retour aux valeurs traditionnelles et à la définition de nouvelles valeurs pour vivre mieux en société. Les auteurs de cet ouvrage s'attachent à montrer comment certaines valeurs victoriennes comme l'amour de la campagne ou un intérêt pour la condition féminine se sont développées au xxe siècle pour donner naissance à de nouvelles valeurs comme l'égalité des sexes ou la protection des espaces verts ou ruraux. Par ailleurs d'autres valeurs sont nées de la transformation de la société britannique dans l'après-guerre avec, notamment, la création d'un service national de santé ou l'utilisation grandissante de la publicité. Ces différentes études de cas (sur les jardins, la campagne, la publicité, l'égalité des sexes, la santé, le sida) intéressent à divers titres le sociologue, le politiste ou tout lecteur curieux d'étudier la transformation de la société britannique.

Equality --- Public health --- Social values --- Egalité (Sociologie) --- Santé publique --- Valeurs sociales --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Civilization --- Social conditions --- Politics and government --- Civilisation --- Conditions sociales --- Politique et gouvernement --- Values --- Angleterre --- nouvelles valeurs --- campagne --- femmes --- égalité

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This book demonstrates that people's basic values and beliefs are changing, in ways that affect their political, sexual, economic, and religious behaviour. These changes are roughly predictable: to a large extent, they can be interpreted on the basis of a revised version of modernisation theory presented here. Drawing on a massive body of evidence from societies containing 85 percent of the world's population, the authors demonstrate that modernisation is a process of human development, in which economic development gives rise to cultural changes that make individual autonomy, gender equality, and democracy increasingly likely. The authors present a model of social change that predicts how the value systems play a crucial role in the emergence and flourishing of democratic institutions - and that modernisation brings coherent cultural changes that are conducive to democratisation.

#SBIB:324H71 --- Social change. --- Social values. --- Democratization. --- Democracy. --- 174.5 --- 316.3 --- 174.5 Economische ethiek. Speculatie --- Economische ethiek. Speculatie --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- New democracies --- Values --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- 316.3 Sociale structuur --(sociologie) --- Sociale structuur --(sociologie) --- Politieke verandering: modernisatie, democratisering, regional development --- Democracy --- Democratization --- Social change --- Social values --- Political systems --- Sociology of culture --- Changement social --- Valeurs sociales --- Démocratie --- Culture --- Développement économique --- Sociologie van de cultuur --- Sociale verandering --- Politieke systemen --- Changement social. --- Démocratie. --- Développement économique. --- Valeurs sociales. --- Culture. --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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Anthony Woodiwiss's pathbreaking book was the first substantive contribution to a sociology of human rights. In it, he takes up the question of whether so-called Asian values are compatible with human rights discourse and argues against human rights issues being the major obstacle to East-West co-operation. Dr Woodiwiss's sociological and post-structuralist approach to the concept of rights, and his incorporation of the transnational dimension into sociological theory, enable him to demonstrate how the global human rights regime can accommodate Asian patriarchalism, while Pacific Asia is itself adapting by means of what he calls 'enforceable benevolence'. His studies of Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore highlight similarities between Pacific-Asian and Western societies and offer a positive view of the social forces obtaining in these territories.

Human rights --- Social values --- Labor laws and legislation --- Employees --- Employment law --- Industrial relations --- Labor law --- Labor standards (Labor law) --- Work --- Working class --- Industrial laws and legislation --- Social legislation --- Values --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law and legislation --- Droits de l'homme (Droit international) --- Valeurs sociales --- Travail --- Droit --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- International economic relations --- Social law. Labour law --- Southeast Asia --- Social Sciences --- Sociology