Socio-demographic effects on cultural biases - A Nordic study of grid-group theory
Grid-group theory claims that patterns of social relations only, and not socio-demographic characteristics. can account for biases, of which the theory prescribes four: hierarchy, egalitarianism, individualism and fatalism. Survey analysts conventionally employ respondents' socio-demographic co...
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ftaboakademicris:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/5c19877e-e3c7-4441-b196-c9da208773c8 2023-05-15T16:50:46+02:00 Socio-demographic effects on cultural biases - A Nordic study of grid-group theory Grendstad, unnar Sundback, Susan 2003 https://research.abo.fi/en/publications/5c19877e-e3c7-4441-b196-c9da208773c8 und unknown info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Grendstad , U & Sundback , S 2003 , ' Socio-demographic effects on cultural biases - A Nordic study of grid-group theory ' , Acta Sociologica , vol. 46 , no. 4 , pp. 289–306 . age cultural biases education grid-group theory income Scandinavia article 2003 ftaboakademicris 2022-12-04T14:19:46Z Grid-group theory claims that patterns of social relations only, and not socio-demographic characteristics. can account for biases, of which the theory prescribes four: hierarchy, egalitarianism, individualism and fatalism. Survey analysts conventionally employ respondents' socio-demographic correlates when accounting for values. We take the value survey strategy and apply it to grid-group theory's four biases. Employing a 1999 survey administered in Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland (n = 4,832), we combine two goals in this article. We test how sex, age, education and income can account for biases. By extension, we test grid-group theory's claim of no such effect. The results show that biases are influenced by socio-demographics in ways unaccounted for by the theory The four correlates explain on average 9 per cent of the variation in the biases. Education is the only correlate that has a negative and significant effect across all biases in all countries. Women adhere to egalitarianism, whereas men adhere to individualism. Age is a consistent positive correlate of hierarchy. whereas income is a consistent negative correlate of fatalism. Grid-group theory will not be impaired if it can be shown how robust socio-demographic correlates interact with patterns of social relations. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Åbo Akademi University Research Portal Norway |
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Grid-group theory claims that patterns of social relations only, and not socio-demographic characteristics. can account for biases, of which the theory prescribes four: hierarchy, egalitarianism, individualism and fatalism. Survey analysts conventionally employ respondents' socio-demographic correlates when accounting for values. We take the value survey strategy and apply it to grid-group theory's four biases. Employing a 1999 survey administered in Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland (n = 4,832), we combine two goals in this article. We test how sex, age, education and income can account for biases. By extension, we test grid-group theory's claim of no such effect. The results show that biases are influenced by socio-demographics in ways unaccounted for by the theory The four correlates explain on average 9 per cent of the variation in the biases. Education is the only correlate that has a negative and significant effect across all biases in all countries. Women adhere to egalitarianism, whereas men adhere to individualism. Age is a consistent positive correlate of hierarchy. whereas income is a consistent negative correlate of fatalism. Grid-group theory will not be impaired if it can be shown how robust socio-demographic correlates interact with patterns of social relations. |
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Socio-demographic effects on cultural biases - A Nordic study of grid-group theory |
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Grendstad , U & Sundback , S 2003 , ' Socio-demographic effects on cultural biases - A Nordic study of grid-group theory ' , Acta Sociologica , vol. 46 , no. 4 , pp. 289–306 . |
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