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Mandel, Anne and Realo, Anu (2015) Across-time change and variation in cultural tightness-looseness. PLoS One, 10 (12). e0145213. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145213 ISSN 1932-6203.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145213
Abstract
Cultural tightness-looseness, a dimension which describes the strength, multitude, and clarity of social norms in a culture, has proved significant in explaining differences between cultures. Although several studies have compared different cultures on this domain, this study is the first that targets both within-country differences and across-time variation in tightness-looseness. Using data from two nationally representative samples of Estonians, we found that the general tightness level had changed over a period of 10 years but the effect size of the change was small. A significant within country variance in 2002 had disappeared by 2012. Our results suggest that tightness-looseness, similarly to cultural value orientations, is a relatively stable and robust characteristic of culture–that is, change indeed takes place, but slowly. Future studies about across-time change and within-country variance in tightness-looseness should target more culturally diverse and socially divided societies.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | |||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Culture, Culture -- Psychological aspects -- Estonia, Cognition and culture, Cultural awareness , Social change , Cultural lag | |||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | PLoS One | |||||||||
Publisher: | Public Library of Science | |||||||||
ISSN: | 1932-6203 | |||||||||
Official Date: | 18 December 2015 | |||||||||
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Volume: | 10 | |||||||||
Number: | 12 | |||||||||
Article Number: | e0145213 | |||||||||
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0145213 | |||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 October 2019 | |||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 October 2019 | |||||||||
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