Organizing principles of involvement in human rights and their social anchoring in value priorities
✍ Scribed by Dario Spini; Willem Doise
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 210 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0046-2772
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✦ Synopsis
Two questionnaire studies were conducted (N 80 and N 175) to examine the structure and the social anchoring of the organizing principles of personal and governmental involvement concerning human rights. The results indicated that these organizing principles had, as hypothesized one abstract and one applied dimension. The second study evaluated the correlations between these dimensions and values. Results were consistent with Schwartz's (1992) model predicting both the internal structure of values and their relations with other variables. Amongst other results, selftranscendence values were positively correlated with the abstract involvements and the applied personal involvement, and negatively with the applied governmental involvement. The results concerning the correlations between conservation values and the four organizing principles were the opposite. Results concerning the links between dierent levels of social anchorings, particularly between the value types and variables such as religious aliation and practice political preferences, and social and political activism were also presented and discussed.