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When values change

Session: European Values Study (I)

Authors:

Rikke Skovgaard Christensen; University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Peter Gundelach; University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Abstract:

This paper will explore situations where there is a shift of values due to social events. Data is the Danish combined 1981-1990-1999-2008 European Values Survey data set for Denmark and the special Danish EVS panel study 1990-2008. The paper will first trace the value consequences of major social events in the general population. Examples of such events are the value consequences of fear of AIDS in the late 1980 and the political value consequences of the insistence of a so-called value struggle initiated by the Danish conservative government from 2001. Second, the panel study is used to trace consequences of individual life story event such as marriage or divorce on family and well-being variables.