Revising the Value Shift Hypothesis: A Descriptive Analysis of South Africa's Value Priorities between 1990 and 2001

Kotzè, Hennie; Lombard, Karin

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“…Yet cross-national studies have shown that materialism is not uniquely associated with 'the West' 149 and a case can be made that the materialist/post-materialist distinction travels well cross-culturally because feeling secure or insecure about survival is meaningful in most (and probably all) societies. 150 Some South African scholars 151,152 have argued in favour of including additional questions (probing so-called 'pre-modern' value orientations, such as access to water and other basic needs).…”

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In defence of exploratory research: A reply to critics

Nattrass¹

2020

S. Afr. J. Sci.

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My Commentary 'Why are black South African students less likely to consider studying biological sciences?' (S Afr J Sci. 2020;116(5/6)) has been criticised on a variety of grounds. Many of these involve misrepresentations or misunderstandings of my research. Some appear to be rooted in hostility towards quantitative social science paradigms. Many condemn what they see as racist assumptions and interpretations. I defend my explicitly exploratory research, showing that the research design was in line with standards for such research and was rooted in well-established existing literatures. I dispute that my research was in any way racist or entailed racial essentialism. Rather, it emphasized that attitudes and beliefs were better predictors of study and career choices than self-identified racial identities per se. I defend the analysis of the 'red-green divide', materialism, attitudes to wildlife and experience of pets and attitudes on other issues. I acknowledge some useful suggestions for further and fuller research to enhance an evidence-based understanding of the challenges of transformation facing the University of Cape Town and the conservation sector more broadly.

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Section: Materialismmentioning

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In defence of exploratory research: A reply to critics

Nattrass¹

2020

S. Afr. J. Sci.

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“…Other researchers take a somewhat different view, that although certain values may prevail in a particular culture at a moment in 1 In an earlier study, examine the influence of postmaterialism on selfemployment rate on a set of 14 OECD countries, finding a negative effect between the two variables. Thus, for instance, Kotzé and Lombard (2003) examine the shift in South Africa's value priorities from prematerialist to materialist between 1990 and 2001 and Inglehart examines the shift among Americans and West Europeans toward postmaterialism between 1970 and 1988 ). Thus, for instance, Kotzé and Lombard (2003) examine the shift in South Africa's value priorities from prematerialist to materialist between 1990 and 2001 and Inglehart examines the shift among Americans and West Europeans toward postmaterialism between 1970 and 1988 ).…”

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Entrepreneurship and Culture

Thurik¹,

Dejardin

2010

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“…Such results seem evidence that indeed the African context differs from the European. Elsewhere it has been demonstrated that in the debate on materialism and post-materialism, an additional concept was needed in order to address the stage of 'pre-materialism' or underdevelopment (Lategan, 2000;Kotzé and Lombard, 2002;Müller, 2003). Our finding that in the African context a sustenance dimension can be distinguished seems to confirm that point of view.…”

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Contemporary Work Values in Africa and Europe

Halman

Müller

2006

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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In this article, two work orientations are compared in European and African countries. These continents differ in many respects and thus differences in work orientations were to be expected. We argue that people’s work orientations will be dependent upon a number of individual and contextual characteristics and we formulated some hypotheses that were empirically tested using the survey data from the recent EVS and WVS projects. The most important conclusion from these analyses is that there is no clear and obvious pattern, neither at the country nor at the regional level, that would explain the varieties and similarities in work orientations of populations. Although some explanations could be found on an individual level we were, however, surprised that the explanations found were not stronger. Thus, we should continue our efforts for finding explanations for differences and similarities in work orientations both at a structural and cultural level.

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Revising the Value Shift Hypothesis: A Descriptive Analysis of South Africa's Value Priorities between 1990 and 2001

Cited by 5 publications

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In defence of exploratory research: A reply to critics

In defence of exploratory research: A reply to critics

Entrepreneurship and Culture

Contemporary Work Values in Africa and Europe

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