Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Editor: Masamichi Sasaki -- Introduction / Masamichi Sasaki -- Trends and Contexts / Theodore Caplow -- A Case for Comparing Apples with Oranges / Geert Hofstede -- History, Social Structure and Individualism / Carmi Schooler -- An Approach to the Study of Psychosocial Maturity / Alex Inkeles and Herbert Leiderman -- The Decline of Traditional Values in Western Europe / Maitei Dogan -- The Quantitative Study of National Character / Chikio Hayashi -- Gender and Pay in Taiwan / Robert M. Marsh -- Modernity and the Construction of Collective Identities / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Contributors / Editor: Masamichi Sasaki -- Author Index / Editor: Masamichi Sasaki -- Subject Index / Editor: Masamichi Sasaki.

Values and Attitudes across Nations and Time contributes to an ever-growing body of work focussing on the elucidation of variations in values and attitudes throughout the world - not only what they actually are, but also strategies for their detection, description and classification. Researchers in the field seek to identify both similarities and differences. In this work, quantitative and qualitative views and methods are explored by nine well-known authors: Masamichi Sasaki, current President of the International Institute of Sociology; Theodore Caplow of the University of Virginia; Mattei Dogan of the National Center of Scientific Research, Paris; S.N. Eisenstadt of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Chikio Hayashi of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo; Geert Hofstede of the University of Limburg at Maastricht in The Netherlands; Alex Inkeles of Stanford University; P. Herbert Leiderman of the Stanford University Medical School; Robert M. Marsh of Brown University; and Carmi Schooler of the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, USA.

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