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Direct linkZhao, Ruohui; Cao, Liqun – Social Forces, 2010
We apply Durkheim's social transitional theory to explain the variation of anomie in 30 nations in the world. Combining data from two sources--the 1995 "World Values Survey and the United Nations University's World Income Inequality Database" or WIID--we test the hypothesis that rapid sociopolitical change at the structural level disrupts social…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Democracy, Social Change, Cross Cultural Studies
Stack, Steven; Adamczyk, Amy; Cao, Liqun – Social Forces, 2010
Explanations of variability in public opinion on crime have drawn disproportionately from the literature on specific symbolic orientations including religious fundamentalism and racial prejudice. In contrast, this article hypothesizes that public opinion is linked to the strength of a general cultural axis of nations: survivalism vs.…
Descriptors: Investigations, Public Opinion, Cross Cultural Studies, Predictor Variables
