Johan SURKYN
2001-2003
Abstract:
The project ‘Family values and social cohesion’ made a comparative European analysis of connections between household type and living arrangements on the one hand and value orientations with respect to social cohesion on the other side. This work was also done in the context of collaboration with the Canadian project on social cohesion (Univ. of Western Ontario – coordination). The data stem from the 1999-2000 round of the European Values Studies for several EU and non EU countries.
Most important results:
The “Leitmotiv” of the relationship between individual household positions or transitions in such positions and their connection to a broad range of value orientations is the feed-back model of selection and adaptation in the household – values orientations correlation. This model proposes that values are non-redundant in predicting the subsequent choices with respect to household transition, and subsequently, that such transitions then also shape the value transitions. This dynamic process explains our preselection for panel data (see NIDI-CBGS Monograph37,2002), but the model equally predicts the recurrence of a very specific cross-sectional pattern, which is the so-called “footprints model”. The data of the European Values Studies (5 rounds) for a large number of countries permit to detect such a “footprint model”. These data were equally used to look for similar connections between household patterns and indicators of social cohesion in a collaborative research with Canadian colleagues.
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