Consolidation

There is no new methodological material to give you a bit of a rest. Instead, we will connect what we have learned so far in terms of methods with the theory of cultural modernisation. For our investigation we will be using the World Value Survey.

The World-Value Survey

The World Values Survey () is a global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life, led by an international team of scholars, with the WVS Association and WVSA Secretariat headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

The survey, which started in 1981, seeks to use the most rigorous, high-quality research designs in each country. The WVS consists of nationally representative surveys conducted in almost 100 countries which contain almost 90 percent of the world?s population, using a common questionnaire. The WVS is the largest non-commercial, cross-national, time series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed, currently including interviews with almost 400,000 respondents. Moreover the WVS is the only academic study covering the full range of global variations, from very poor to very rich countries, in all of the world’s major cultural zones.

The WVS has taken place across six waves, each collecting data from a different set of countries: