Value contrasts and consensus in present-day Europe : : painting Europe's moral landscapes / / edited by Wil Arts and Loek Halman.

• Superior document: European values studies, volume 15
• TeilnehmendeR: Arts, Wilhelmus Antonius, 1946-; Halman, Loek.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: European values studies ; v. 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (442 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

People's fundamental values can be conceived of as conceptions of what is desirable. They influence their selection from available modes, means and ends of action. Because of the societal importance of values they deserve scholarly attention. This volume inquires into the values present-day Europeans cherish by empirically analyzing the data of 2008/2010 wave of the European Values Study and explaining the consensus and contrasts in value orientations found. The contributors to this volume try to capture the diversities and similarities in value orientations between contemporary European countries in a range of life-spheres by unravelling context and composition effects. They are in search of evidence that either country level factors such as institutional arrangements or the composition of the populations of countries in terms of gender, age, socio-economic status, religion etcetera have the greatest impact. By doing so they paint the moral landscapes of Europe today.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1. Cross-National Values in Europe Today: Facts and Explanations / Wil Arts and Loek Halman -- 2. Who is Afraid of the (Big Bad) European Union? European Integration and Fears about Job Losses / Jonas Grauel , Jana Heine and Christian Lahusen -- 3. Shifting Loyalties? Globalization and National Identity in the Twenty-First Century / Tim Reeskens and Matthew Wright -- 4. Support for Labour-Market Discrimination of Migrants in Europe / Marcel Coenders , Marcel Lubbers and Peer Scheepers -- 5. The Relative Deservingness of the Unemployed in the Eyes of the European Public / Marjolein Jeene and Wim van Oorschot -- 6. Neighbours: Determinants of Whom Europeans Want to Keep at a Distance / Edurne Bartolomé Peral and Alice Ramos -- 7. Freedom or Equality / Peter Gundelach -- 8. The Distribution of Social Capital across Europe / John Gelissen and Wil Arts -- 9. Conventional and Unconventional Political Participation / Eline A. de Rooij and Tim Reeskens -- 10. Religious Vitality and Church Attendance in Europe / Nienke Moor -- 11. Secularization in Europe: An Analysis of Inter-Generational Religious Change / David Voas and Stefanie Doebler -- 12. Modernization, Culture and Morality in Europe: Universalism, Contextualism or Relativism? / Hermann Dülmer -- 13. Public Good Morality in Europe: An Impact of Communist Rule? / Loek Halman and Inge Sieben -- 14. Attitudes towards Gender Roles in Europe: Modernization and Social Institutions / Malina Voicu and Andreea Constantin -- 15. Work Values in Europe: Modernization, Globalization, Institutionalization and Their Moderating Impact on the Occupational Class Effect / Maurice Gesthuizen and Ellen Verbakel -- 16. Social Capital, Social Cohesion and Health: Is Country-Level Trust Associated with Self-Assessed Health in Europe? / Christiaan Monden -- 17. If Money Does Not by Much Happiness, What Does? A Multilevel Analysis on the Impact of Absolute and Relative Income, Social Values and Modernization on Subjective Well-Being in Europe / Ruud Muffels , Daniela Skugor and Ellen Dingemans -- About the authors -- Subject index -- Author index.