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Dispositions to Act in Favor of the Environment: Fatalism and Readiness to Make Sacrifices in a Cross‐National Perspective 1
Author(s) -
Haller Max,
Hadler Markus
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
sociological forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1573-7861
pISSN - 0884-8971
DOI - 10.1111/j.1573-7861.2008.00059.x
Subject(s) - fatalism , pessimism , perspective (graphical) , context (archaeology) , politics , social environment , test (biology) , social psychology , general social survey , sociology , survey data collection , positive economics , environmental ethics , psychology , social science , political science , economics , law , geography , ecology , epistemology , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , archaeology , artificial intelligence , computer science , biology
This article hypothesizes that individuals’ environmental attitudes depend not only on their knowledge, interests, emotions, and values but also on the social context in which they live. We test this hypothesis by analyzing the 2000/01 ISSP‐II Survey on Environmental Attitudes; the data include respondents from 23 countries. Our findings show that individual characteristics influence both “pessimistic environmental orientations” and “the willingness to act in favor of the environment.” As for social context, the level of development and affluence, the degree of political centralization, the presence of green movements and parties, and the degree of objective pollution in a country are all important. However, their influences on fatalism and willingness vary.