Understanding factors that foster citizen values in the Chilean Society: empirical contributions from The Chilean Longitudinal Social Survey (ELSOC)

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

The Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES) is an interdisciplinary Chilean research centre that since 2016 has been implementing the Chilean Longitudinal Social Survey (ELSOC), a unique longitudinal study in Chile and Latin America, that was conceived to understand how Chileans attitudes, opinions and behaviour change over time. In this panel we present a research programme aimed at understanding how Chilean society faces important social issues such as current immigration flows, massive collective actions, perceived gender inequalities and the justification of violence. Using a national urban representative sample (N=2984), several hypotheses were tested conducting cross-sectional and/or longitudinal analyses regarding a) the relationship between prosociality and civic activism (Paper 1), the online and offline collective actions links (Paper 2), the role of proportion of immigrants, intergroup contact experience, and injunctive norms in fostering trust in immigrants, (Paper 3), the link between gender stereotypes and social justice (Paper 4) d) and the underlying attitudes associated with the justification of violence (Paper 5). Taken together all these papers speak about the need for stimulating the implementation of longitudinal studies using representative samples in order to deeply understand the underlying factors that foster citizen values in any given society. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.

Sub Track

• Education, Citizenship, and Inclusion

Session Organizer

• Roberto Gonzalez, P. Universidad Católica de Chile

Chair

• Daniel Miranda, P. Universidad Católica de Chile

Discussant

• Hector Carvacho

Individual Presentations

• Which come first, prosociality or civic activism?: longitudinal relations and the role of socioeconomic status - Paula Luengo Kanacri

• Understanding the difference in sustainable commitment to offline and online collective action: the longitudinal evidence from Chile’s social movements - Daniel Miranda, P. Universidad Católica de Chile

• How much Chileans trust Peruvian immigrants? The role of contextual, normative and intergroup contact factors - Roberto Gonzalez, P. Universidad Católica de Chile

• Women in the kitchen and men at work: What predicts the endorsement of traditional gender stereotypes? - Gloria Jimenez-Moya, P. Universidad Católica de Chile

• The underlying motives for justifying violence in Chile - Hector Carvacho