On Family, Work, Money, and Morals: Intergenerational Value Differences in China

In which ways has China's rapid social change crystallized into differences between its generations' values? The significance of intergenerational value gaps in work, family, materialism, and individualism is reported based on a mixed-methods (qualitative and quantitative) approach. The re...

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Veröffentlicht in:She hui 2010-07, Vol.30 (4), p.118-142
Hauptverfasser: Swader, Christopher, Yuan, Hao
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Sprache:chi
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Zusammenfassung:In which ways has China's rapid social change crystallized into differences between its generations' values? The significance of intergenerational value gaps in work, family, materialism, and individualism is reported based on a mixed-methods (qualitative and quantitative) approach. The results of quantitative analysis of the 4th wave (2000) of World Values Survey data in China were compared with the outcomes of the qualitative semi-structured interviews with middle-aged businessmen and their fathers conducted in Shanghai in late 2005 to see if there were intergenerational breaks or continuities in values. It was found that the middle-aged cohort, compared with the older cohort, was less thrift-focused, more materialistic, more individualistic, and less mindful of the parental duty of norm transmission. However, both the middle-aged and older cohorts valued hard work to an equal extent. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:1004-8804