By August Flammer, Francoise D. Alsaker
The outlet of the borders to japanese Europe has accelerated our view on eu diversities and provided new possibilities to envision the consequences of the heterogeneity in eu cultural backgrounds and political platforms on character and social improvement. This ebook is a primary step in using the wealthy cultural source provided via the big variety of cultural devices represented in Europe and--at least in part--in the USA. a technique to appreciate the existence stipulations of kids in numerous international locations is to check what they really do in way of life and what sort of time they spend on what varieties of actions. This ebook additionally presents crucial and new information regarding person and societal priorities and values. towards this finish, the "Euronet" scientists organize a postdoctoral education workshop on adolescent psychology for 10 chosen American and 10 chosen eu individuals. The Euronet venture contains thirteen varied samples--six stemming from center and japanese eu nations (Bulgaria, the Czechoslovakian Federal Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and Romania), six from Western ecu international locations (Finland, France, Germany, Norway, French, and German Switzerland), and one from the us (Michigan). This ebook studies the result of this massive, cross-national, longitudinal research of young people and the world(s) within which they stay, and is accessible to all those that be interested in youth and/or the variety of Europe. Readers will find out about countless numbers of positive aspects of youth that are kind of attribute of the cultures, a long time, and genders.
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Gender and Age Differences. This third general issue, discussed earlier, can be formulated as follows: Are there interactions between age and/or gender and culture? Put in other words, are the gender or age differences that can be expected on the basis of earlier research replicable in all cultunits included in our study? Given a presumed high degree of variation between countries as to gender roles and gender stereotypes, it sounds reasonable to expect an interaction of gender with culture in many variables.
First, the main interest is in distributions and mean scores. This is the type of results we are most used to, reporting how one national sample differs from others, for example, in terms of the mean importance of certain beliefs in each cultunit. Second, comparisons consist of testing whether certain Page 9 operationalizations of concepts mean the same thing to people in different countrieswhether they yield the same loading patterns in principal component analyses, whether they produce the same reliability coefficients, and so on.
How much cross-border permeability there is depends, however, on many factors. One of these factors is the degree of political and administrative centralization. In the case of Switzerland, for example, where the federal states have a high degree of autonomy, one expects more permeability across the borders than in countries with a high degree of centralization. The question is whether we can find these language borders in our analyses. Are the French adolescents and the French-Swiss adolescents more similar to one another than the French-Swiss adolescents to the German-Swiss adolescents?