Open AccessRussian Parental Values in the international Context, 1990/1991–2017/2020
Author(s) -
Lidia Okolskaya
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
sociologičeskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1684-1581
pISSN - 1562-2495
DOI - 10.19181/socjour.2021.27.4.8643
Subject(s) - humanism , obedience , world values survey , value (mathematics) , context (archaeology) , family values , social value orientations , ethical values , sociology , political science , social science , law , geography , economics , statistics , mathematics , archaeology , microeconomics
The aim of the paper is to analyze parental values in Russia and 33 other countries, and explore how they’ve changed between 1990 and 2017–2020. Russian dynamics are shown on 7 waves, international — on 2 waves. We used a combination of data from the World Values Survey and the European Values Study. We found that in 1990 the Russian value agenda in regards to children was essentially directed towards survival. By 2017–2020 certain changes had occurred: Russians no longer considered survival values to be as important (such as hard work, thrift, obedience); self-expression values (e.g., independence and imagination) became more popular; humanistic values lost much of their importance for Russians. In 33 countries humanistic values remained as popular as in 1990, while survival values seem to be less important. Russian parental values change in the same direction as do Russian personal values.