Value change in the Western world: the rise of materialism, post-materialism or both?

Strenze, Tarmo

doi:10.1080/03906701.2021.1996761

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“…In this vein, Gen Zers differ from other generations in the degree to which they lean on their moral reasoning when making consumption choices (Atanasova and Eckhardt 2021; Strenze 2021). This distance from the materialism of older generations deserves a cultural explanation that can transcend the common approach of Hofstede (2011), given that the two indicators of Collectivism and Masculinity did not add much information to our models.…”

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“…In fact, postmaterialism is connected to a greater demand for values satisfaction, quality of life, and self-expression, in opposition to the narrow focus of materialism on achieving satisfaction and status through the consumption and possession of goods (e.g., Atanasova and Eckhardt 2021; Inglehart 2008; Kasser et al 2004). Fittingly, postmaterialism is prevailing in young generations (Delistavrou, Krystallis, and Tilikidou 2020; Islam et al 2018; Strenze 2021), who are more likely to enact their individual values in the form “of informal, individualized and everyday activities” (Harris, Wyn, and Younes 2010, p. 10). Dittmar et al (2014; see also Watson 2021) found a robust negative relationship between materialism and well-being, suggesting a poor satisfaction of psychological needs at the top of the Maslow hierarchy.…”

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“…In fact, they appear to be aware of their individual role in the market arena and choose to make independent decisions to positively influence the future, rather than merely express themselves for the sake of social recognition. In this vein, Gen Zers differ from other generations in the degree to which they lean on their moral reasoning when making consumption choices (Atanasova and Eckhardt 2021;Strenze 2021). This distance from the materialism of older generations deserves a cultural explanation that can transcend the common approach of Hofstede (2011), given that the two indicators of Collectivism and Masculinity did not add much information to our models.…”

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Bridging Who They Are with Who They Thought They’d Be: The Effects of Gen Zers’ Subjective Well-Being on Their Boycott Responses to Online and Offline Unethical Situations

Tuan¹,

Visentin²,

Domenico³

2023

Journal of Interactive Marketing

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This research investigates the role of subjective well-being in Gen Zers’ response to unethical situations that are encountered online versus offline. It empirically supports a model that incorporates moral reasoning effects and the aftermath of learning about the situation in either a first-person or third-person perspective. The findings suggest that Gen Zers are eager to show their values and participate in boycotts when facing an unethical situation. Subjective well-being plays an important role in activating versus inhibiting boycott behaviors as a response to unethical situations encountered both online and offline. Counterintuitively, Gen Zers are less likely to show support for a boycott when scoring high on well-being, since they are not willing to signal their commitment to gain social legitimacy. In fact, when coping with unethical situations, they are eager to display their true values and to enact the boycott rather than merely show support for it.

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Bridging Who They Are with Who They Thought They’d Be: The Effects of Gen Zers’ Subjective Well-Being on Their Boycott Responses to Online and Offline Unethical Situations

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Domenico³

2023

Journal of Interactive Marketing

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“…The majority of the current generation of retirement migrants came of age in the 60s and 70s of the 20th century, a period characterised by increased prosperity and consumerism. Part of this generation of baby boomers is thought to have undergone changes in value systems, with greater emphasis on choice, autonomy and self‐expression (Gilleard & Higgs, 2007) and a greater focus on nonmaterial goals, such as self‐development, equality and freedom (Inglehart, 1971; Strenze, 2021). There is evidence that some retirement migrants are driven by postmaterialist values.…”

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Understanding motives for international migration: A survey of Dutch retirement migrants in forty destinations

Spaan

Henkens

Kalmijn

2023

Population Space and Place

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Prior studies have examined why people emigrate from their country of birth during retirement. By focusing on describing motives for international retirement migration, these studies overlook what inhibits or enables people to have particular motives to migrate. We collected data from a representative sample of Dutch nationals aged 66–90 who were born in the Netherlands and migrated after age 50. We distinguish seven—not mutually exclusive—migration motives: longing for tranquillity, the culture in the destination, to start a new life, a better climate, economic reasons, health reasons and dissatisfaction with the origin country. Using Ordinary Least Square regressions, we estimate how people's socioeconomic status, premigration health, premigration residential environment, cultural values and personality traits explain migration motives. We examine how motives relate to destination countries. The results show that there are various motives for which people migrate and that different types of motives are systematically related to the types of people who migrate. For example, people with a lower socioeconomic status are more likely to migrate for economic and dissatisfaction motives and less likely to migrate for tranquillity than people with a higher socioeconomic status. By distinguishing migration motives in 12 destinations, we broaden our understanding of out‐migration from high‐income countries.

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“…Political scientists have made a distinction between private values and political values of citizens (Zhai, 2021). Strenze (2021), for example, argued that while political values have become more postmaterialistic in the Unites States and Western Europe since 1970s, values related to work have become more materialistic. At the outset, values such as authoritarianism, emancipation, and democracy shape domestic politics and, thereby, the development of this stream.…”

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Value Change, Value Conflict, and Policy Innovation: Understanding the Opposition to the Market-Based Economic Dispatch of Electricity Scheme in India Using the Multiple Streams Framework

Goyal

Iychettira

2022

Sci Eng Ethics

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As policy innovation is essential for upscaling responsible innovation, understanding its relationship to value change(s) occurring or sought in sociotechnical systems is imperative. In this study, we ask: what are the different types of values in the policy process? And, how does value change influence policy innovation? We propose a disaggregation of values and value change based on a four-stream variant of the multiple streams framework (MSF), a conceptual lens increasingly used for explaining policy innovation in sociotechnical transitions. Specifically, we posit that the values that ‘govern’ problem framing, policy design, political decision making, and technological diffusion can evolve relatively independently, potentially leading to value conflict. We apply this framework to the ongoing case of the market-based economic dispatch of electricity (MBED) policy in the Indian energy transition using content analysis. We find that the MBED scheme—with its emphasis on efficiency (problem), economic principles (policy), low-cost dispatch (technology), and centralization (politics)—attempts value change in each stream. Each instance of value change is, however, widely contested, with the ensuing value conflicts resulting in significant opposition to this policy innovation. We conclude that a disaggregation of values based on the MSF can facilitate an analysis of value change and value conflict in sociotechnical transitions and lay the foundation for systematically studying the relationships among technological change, value change, and policy change.

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Value change in the Western world: the rise of materialism, post-materialism or both?

Cited by 6 publications

References 36 publications

Bridging Who They Are with Who They Thought They’d Be: The Effects of Gen Zers’ Subjective Well-Being on Their Boycott Responses to Online and Offline Unethical Situations

Bridging Who They Are with Who They Thought They’d Be: The Effects of Gen Zers’ Subjective Well-Being on Their Boycott Responses to Online and Offline Unethical Situations

Understanding motives for international migration: A survey of Dutch retirement migrants in forty destinations

Value Change, Value Conflict, and Policy Innovation: Understanding the Opposition to the Market-Based Economic Dispatch of Electricity Scheme in India Using the Multiple Streams Framework

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