Abstract We examine the extent to which income inequality is associated with materialistic values and behavior in Europe United States (US). In US, existing research on largely focused study of shopping shows that, when higher, individuals search for buy products that are more luxury. Europe, evidence this phenomenon mainly based survey questions people’s values, results mixed. To determine whe...

Sustainable development is becoming increasingly important because it improves the quality of our lives. Businesses must focus beyond maximizing corporate economic profits, which are very important. They internalize fact that planning and governance-oriented strategies focused on promoting human health well-being ensure a sustainable future. This study explores influence exerted by trust in lar...

1 The growing literature on trust, social capital and well-being relies almost exclusively on a single survey measure of interpersonal trust: " Generally speaking, do you think that most people can be trusted, or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people? " Efforts at modelling response to this balanced question are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Notable recent examples include...

Gregory Levitin Reliability Department, Planning, Development and Technology Division, Bait Amir, Israel Electric Corporation Ltd., P.O. Box 10, Haifa, 31000 Israel E-mail: [email protected] Abstract The weighted voting system (WVS) consists of n units that each provide a binary decision (0 or 1) or abstain from voting. Each unit has its own individual weight. System output is 1 if the cumulati...

The authors consider reasons for the countries uneven development, provide sociological foundations study of this phenomenon, examine countries’ sociodynamics, reconstruct a map development in contemporary global world, and explore trajectory Belarus. argue that vector sociodynamics is not predetermined, it depends on internal factors, culture plays key programming role. Value choice an importa...

This paper studies completed parity distributions for all the industrialized and developing countries that participated in the World Fertility Survey. This is done by means of a table based on parity calculated for all ever-married women above age 40 by educational and residential subcategories. The information is also used to compare mean family and mean sibship sizes and to study changes in...

In seeking to understand the root causes of the events of 9/11 many accounts have turned to Samuel P. Huntington’s provocative and controversial thesis of a ‘clash of civilizations’, arousing strong debate. Evidence from the 1995-2001 waves of the World Values Survey/European Values Survey (WVS/EVS) allows us, for the Ž rst time, to examine an extensive body of empirical evidence relating to th...

many pieces of research have investigated the environmental variable including environmental beliefs, values, attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors among iranian people, but their coverage has not gone beyond a few provinces. this research investigates the status of iranian's environmental values (in micro and macro level) in national level and gone beyond description by targeting explanatio...