RT Article
T1 Cross-Cultural Values: A Meta-Analysis of Major Quantitative Studies in the Last Decade (2010–2020)
JF Religions
VO 11
IS 3
A1 Goodwin, Jamie Lynn
A1 Herzog, Patricia Snell
A1 Williams, Andrew Lloyd
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1727137663
AB Since 2010, scholars have made major contributions to cross-cultural research, especially regarding similarities and differences across world regions and countries in people’s values, beliefs, and morality. This paper accumulates and analyzes extant multi-national and quantitative studies of these facets of global culture. The paper begins with a summary of the modern history of cross-cultural research, then systematically reviews major empirical studies published since 2010, and next analyzes extant approaches to interpret how the constructs of belief, morality, and values have been theorized and operationalized. The analysis reveals that the field of cross-cultural studies remains dominated by Western approaches, especially studies developed and deployed from the United States and Western Europe. While numerous surveys have been translated and employed for data collection in countries beyond the U.S. and Western Europe, several countries remain under-studied, and the field lacks approaches that were developed within the countries of interest. The paper concludes by outlining future directions for the study of cross-cultural research. To progress from the colonialist past embedded within cross-cultural research, in which scholars from the U.S. and Western Europe export research tools to other world regions, the field needs to expand to include studies locally developed and deployed within more countries and world regions.
K1 European Values Survey
K1 GLOBE
K1 Hofstede
K1 Moral Foundations
K1 Schwartz
K1 Social Axioms
K1 Survey of World Views
K1 World Values Survey
K1 Beliefs
K1 cross-cultural values
K1 Morality
DO 10.3390/rel11080396