Focusing on Europe, this article aims to disentangle the patterns of cultural clustering and to
throw more light on concepts such as 'civilizations' and 'cultural zones.'Cross-cultural …

The within-country and between-country heterogeneity of populations has been largely
studied apart from each other. This article analyses simultaneously these two parts of value …

This article presents a theory of seven cultural value orientations that form three cultural
value dimensions. This theory permits more finely tuned characterization of cultures than …

The study of human values has a long and distinguished tradition. The importance of the
citizens' mindset for various spheres of social life has been recognized by thinkers going all …

Most of us have notions about how the cultures of particular nations differ from one another.
For theory and practice to progress, however, we need reliable ways to describe and …

All research shows substantial between-country differences in values. How can these be
explained? This article argues that a social institution's approach is more effective than the …

The aim of this chapter is to:(1) model culture as a configuration of multiple values,(2)
identify different culture archetypes across the globe, and (3) empirically demonstrate …

This chapter presents my theory of seven cultural value orientations and applies it to
understanding relations of culture to significant societal phenomena. The first section …

This paper empirically explores the notion that individualization is a major dimension of
societal changes in Europe. It is investigated if there is indeed evidence of the idea that …

Cross-national value research has prospered in the last few decades. We owe this
flourishing especially to the fact that a great number of major comparative datasets have …