Moderation of Values-Education Relations by Cultural Value Orientations

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Abstract

This study opens the issue of the cross-cultural variability of the value differences between educational groups. A multilevel analysis of 25 European countries was carried out using data from eight rounds of the European Social Survey (2002–2016). The association between tertiary education and an individual’s value preferences depends on the prevailing cultural orientations in a society. In European countries high on cultural autonomy and egalitarianism, tertiary-educated individuals are more likely than lower-educated ones to prefer universalism and benevolence and much less likely to prefer security values. But these value differences are much smaller in European countries high on cultural hierarchy and embeddedness. This confirms that the value consensus between educational groups is stronger in embedded and hierarchy cultures (as for universalism, benevolence, and security values) and the association between higher education and preferred values is different in these cultures than we would expect on the basis of previous studies.

Author

• Petra Raudenská, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences