Tag: values

• May 13, 2026

  Daniel Bell and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

  Capitalism is often understood as an economic system based on markets, private property, competition, productivity, and growth. However, for the sociologist Daniel Bell, capitalism was not only an economic structure. It was also a cultural system, and this cultural dimension created one of its deepest contradictions. In his influential book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism,…

• August 3, 2014

  World Values Survey International Open Seminar

      The “World Values ​​Survey International Open Seminar” will be held at the University of Almería on the 24th and 25th of November 2014. This conference is organized by the Department of Sociology and marks the release of the sixth wave of the World Values Survey (http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org). The conference will feature published papers and…

• November 20, 2012

  Are you “resources” or “feeling” researcher? #understandingresearchphilosophies

  As researcher you are creating new knowledge. But, what is or not knowledge for you? Two main views may be adopted. (1) The researcher who concerns on numbers and countable elements: “resources” researcher (2) The researcher who concerns more with the feelings and attitudes of the people involved in the organization studied: “feeling” researcher 1.…

• November 14, 2012

  What roles do your values play?

  A value is an idea what people share about what is good or bad, desireble or undesireble. Values are reflected in apparantly trivial everyday behaviors. The sociologist Robin M. Williams, Jr. (1970) identified fifteen fundamental values (in reference to american society achievement and success activity and work humanitarianism efficiency and practicality progress material confort equality…