Publisher Summary This chapter addresses the universals in the content and structure of values, concentrating on the theoretical advances and empirical tests in 20 countries, and its four basic issues: substantive contents of human values; identification of comprehensive set of values; extent to which the meaning of particular values was equivalent for different groups of people; and how the relations among different values was structured. Substantial progress has been made toward resolving each of these issues. Ten motivationally distinct value types that were likely to be recognized within and across cultures and used to form value priorities were identified. Set of value types that was relatively comprehensive, encompassing virtually all the types of values to which individuals attribute at least moderate importance as criteria of evaluation was demonstrated. The evidence from 20 countries was assembled, showing that the meaning of the value types and most of the single values that constitute them was reasonably equivalent across most groups. Two basic dimensions that organize value systems into an integrated motivational structure with consistent value conflicts and compatibilities were discovered. By identifying universal aspects of value content and structure, the chapter has laid the foundations for investigating culture-specific aspects in the future.

Universals in the Content and Structure of Values: Theoretical Advances and Empirical Tests in 20 Countries

Well-being : the foundations of hedonic psychology

There is wide agreement about the major goals of economic policy: high employment, stable prices, and rapid growth. There is less agreement that these goals are mutually compatible or, among those who regard them as incompatible, about the terms at which they can and should be substituted for one another. There is least agreement about the role that various instruments of policy can and should play in achieving the several goals.

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The role of monetary policy

Prior to the twentieth century, theories of knowledge were inherently perceptual. Since then, developments in logic, statis- tics, and programming languages have inspired amodal theories that rest on principles fundamentally different from those underlying perception. In addition, perceptual approaches have become widely viewed as untenable because they are assumed to implement record- ing systems, not conceptual systems. A perceptual theory of knowledge is developed here in the context of current cognitive science and neuroscience. During perceptual experience, association areas in the brain capture bottom-up patterns of activation in sensory-motor areas. Later, in a top-down manner, association areas partially reactivate sensory-motor areas to implement perceptual symbols. The stor- age and reactivation of perceptual symbols operates at the level of perceptual components - not at the level of holistic perceptual expe- riences. Through the use of selective attention, schematic representations of perceptual components are extracted from experience and stored in memory (e.g., individual memories of green, purr, hot). As memories of the same component become organized around a com- mon frame, they implement a simulator that produces limitless simulations of the component (e.g., simulations of purr). Not only do such simulators develop for aspects of sensory experience, they also develop for aspects of proprioception (e.g., lift, run) and introspec- tion (e.g., compare, memory, happy, hungry). Once established, these simulators implement a basic conceptual system that represents types, supports categorization, and produces categorical inferences. These simulators further support productivity, propositions, and ab- stract concepts, thereby implementing a fully functional conceptual system. Productivity results from integrating simulators combinato- rially and recursively to produce complex simulations. Propositions result from binding simulators to perceived individuals to represent type-token relations. Abstract concepts are grounded in complex simulations of combined physical and introspective events. Thus, a per- ceptual theory of knowledge can implement a fully functional conceptual system while avoiding problems associated with amodal sym- bol systems. Implications for cognition, neuroscience, evolution, development, and artificial intelligence are explored.

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Perceptual symbol systems.

Consumer researchers' growing interest in consumer experiences has revealed that many consumption activities produce both hedonic and utilitarian outcomes. Thus, there is an increasing need for scales to assess consumer perceptions of both hedonic and utilitarian values. This article describes the development of a scale measuring both values obtained from the pervasive consumption experience of shopping. The authors develop and validate the scale using a multistep process. The results demonstrate that distinct hedonic and utilitarian shopping value dimensions exist and are related to a number of important consumption variables. Implications for further applications of the scale are discussed.

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Work and/or Fun: Measuring Hedonic and Utilitarian Shopping Value

Utilitarianism : Essay on Bentham (Obsaž.) : On liberty(Obsaž.) : Selected writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin(Obsaž.)

On Social Freedom

This collection covers the breadth of Mill's work in social theory and political economy, including his ethics, liberalism, theory of government, methodology and feminism. It represents the most important scholarly and philosophical criticism of this century, illustrating the development of modern Mill scholarship and the influence of changing social conditions and philosophical trends upon it. In a general introduction the editor describes the social and intellectual context of Mill criticism, and provides a linking commentary to the material in each volume. The material in the collection displays the breadth and depth of high-quality scholarly and philosophical criticism of Mill's social thought. * Volume One covers Social Ethics * Volume Two covers Freedom * Volume Three covers Politics and Government * Volume Four covers Method, Life, Feminism and Culture

John Stuart Mill's social and political thought : critical assessments

Die Hörigkeit der Frau und andere Schriften zur Frauenemanzipation

Cando en 1859 John Stuart Mill da as prensas do editor londinense John W. Parker o orixinal do ensaio no que traballara durante cinco anos, que, con criterio clasico, titulou On Liberty, estaban asentando en Estados Unidos e Europa os primeiros sistemas liberais nos que foran callando as ideas nutricias da revolucion Francesa. Agromaban, ao tempo, novas formas de control que vinan demostrar que a fermosa verba liberdade, pronunciada por tantas xeracions prenadas de esperanza, perdiase con demasiada frecuencia nas formalidades do sistema, sen deitar con xenerosidade os vizosos froitos que dela se agardaban. Nestas circunstancias, John Stuart Mill, lonxe de escribir un tratado filosofico sobre a liberdade valido para todo tempo e circunstancia, quixo analizar o desenvolvemento da liberdade real na dialectica entre o cidadan e a persoa, ou entre a comunidade e o individuo, que determinaba o avance e progresion das republicas liberais. En Sobre a liberdade, un clasico perenne do pensamento politico, Mill conclue que a creacion dunha sociedade liberal, comprometida cos avances politicos e co necesario equilibrio do modelo economico, so pode lograrse mediante a reposicion dunha cidadania responsable, activa e inspirada por valores esenciais e inseparables do individuo.

John Stuart Mill

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Utilitarianism : Essay on Bentham (Obsaž.) : On liberty(Obsaž.) : Selected writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin(Obsaž.)

On Social Freedom

John Stuart Mill's social and political thought : critical assessments

Die Hörigkeit der Frau und andere Schriften zur Frauenemanzipation

Sobre a liberdade