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Position and Disposition: The Contextual Development of Human Values

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Longest, KC; Hitlin, S; Vaisey, S
Published in: Social Forces
June 1, 2013

Research on the importance of values often focuses primarily on one domain of social predictors (e.g., economic) or limits its scope to a single dimension of values. We conduct a simultaneous analysis of a wide range of theoretically important social influences and a more complete range of individuals' value orientations, focusing both on value ratings and rankings. Results indicate that traditional institutions such as religion and parenthood are associated with more concern for the welfare of others and maintaining the status quo, whereas more individually oriented occupational factors like higher income and self-employment are linked to achievement and change-related values. Yet several factors, such as education and gender, have complex associations when individual values are examined as part of a coherent system rather than in isolation. © The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. All rights reserved.

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Social Forces

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1534-7605

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0037-7732

Publication Date

June 1, 2013

Volume

91

Issue

4

Start / End Page

1499 / 1528

Related Subject Headings

  • Sociology
  • 4410 Sociology
  • 1608 Sociology
 

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Longest, K. C., Hitlin, S., & Vaisey, S. (2013). Position and Disposition: The Contextual Development of Human Values. Social Forces, 91(4), 1499–1528. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/sot045
Longest, K. C., S. Hitlin, and S. Vaisey. “Position and Disposition: The Contextual Development of Human Values.” Social Forces 91, no. 4 (June 1, 2013): 1499–1528. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/sot045.
Longest KC, Hitlin S, Vaisey S. Position and Disposition: The Contextual Development of Human Values. Social Forces. 2013 Jun 1;91(4):1499–528.
Longest, K. C., et al. “Position and Disposition: The Contextual Development of Human Values.” Social Forces, vol. 91, no. 4, June 2013, pp. 1499–528. Scopus, doi:10.1093/sf/sot045.
Longest KC, Hitlin S, Vaisey S. Position and Disposition: The Contextual Development of Human Values. Social Forces. 2013 Jun 1;91(4):1499–1528.
Journal cover image

Published In

Social Forces

DOI

EISSN

1534-7605

ISSN

0037-7732

Publication Date

June 1, 2013

Volume

91

Issue

4

Start / End Page

1499 / 1528

Related Subject Headings

  • Sociology
  • 4410 Sociology
  • 1608 Sociology