Social Cohesion as a Real-life Phenomenon: Exploring the Validity of the Universalist and Particularist Perspectives



A not mentioned;

B mentioned

Active civic participation: Respondents were also asked whether they did voluntary work
for these nine different organizations.

Appendix 2. Additional social cohesion indicators drawn from WVS

Respect for parents:

“Which of the two statements do you tend to agree with? < A - regardless of what the
qualities and faults of ones parents are, one must always love and respect them; B - One
does not have the duty to respect and love parents who have not earned it by their
behaviour and attitudes”

Items composing Materialism-Postmaterialism index*:

Maintaining order in the nation (-)

Giving people more say in the decisions of the government (+)

Fight rising prices (-)

Protect freedom of speech (+)

* Postmaterialism = positive pole; a minus indicates that the item is negatively correlated
with the index, a plus indicates a positive correlation

See Inglehart (1990) for a full description.

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