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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