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Second meeting,13 December 2016

The concept of deservingness and social policy attitudes

Presenter: Janky Béla

 

Presented readings

Theoretical

 Fong, C. M., Bowles, S., & Gintis, H. (2005). Reciprocity and the Welfare State. In Gintis, H. et al. (eds). Moral sentiments and material interests: The foundations of cooperation in economic life. MIT press. pp. 277-302.

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Binmore, K. (2010). Social norms or social preferences?. Mind & Society, 9(2), 139-157.

  

Empirical

Aarøe, L., & Petersen, M. B. (2014). Crowding out culture: Scandinavians and Americans agree on social welfare in the face of deservingness cues. The Journal of Politics, 76(03), 684-697.

Petersen, M. B., Sznycer, D., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2012). Who deserves help? evolutionary psychology, social emotions, and public opinion about welfare. Political psychology, 33(3), 395-418.

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Almås, I., Tungodden, B., & Cappelen, A. (2016). Cutthroat Capitalism versus Cuddly Socialism: Are Americans More Meritocratic and Efficiencyseeking than Scandinavians?. Unpublished Manuscript, Stockholm University.

 

Further readings

Binmore, K. (2014). Bargaining and fairness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(Supplement 3), 10785-10788.

Cavaillé, C. (2015). Deservingness and Material-Interest: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff.

Fehr, E., & Schmidt, K. M. (1999). A theory of fairness, competition, and cooperation. Quarterly journal of Economics, 817-868.

Gilens, M. (1999). Why Americans hate welfare: Race, media, and the politics of antipoverty policy. University of Chicago Press.

Gintis, H. (2000). Strong reciprocity and human sociality. Journal of theoretical biology, 206(2), 169-179.

Jensen, C., & Petersen, M. B. (2016). The deservingness heuristic and the politics of health care. American Journal of Political Science.

Lepianka, D., Van Oorschot, W., & Gelissen, J. (2009). Popular explanations of poverty: A critical discussion of empirical research. Journal of Social Policy, 38(03), 421-438.

Petersen, M. B. (2012). The evolutionary psychology of mass politics. In. Roberts, S. C. (ed.) Applied evolutionary psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 115-130.

 Petersen, M. B., Slothuus, R., Stubager, R., & Togeby, L. (2010). Deservingness versus values in public opinion on welfare: The automaticity of the deservingness heuristic. European Journal of Political Research, 50(1), 24-52.

Slothuus, R. (2007). Framing deservingness to win support for welfare state retrenchment. Scandinavian Political Studies, 30(3), 323-344.

Weiner, B. (1995). Judgments of responsibility: A foundation for a theory of social conduct. Guilford Press.

 

  

Third meeting, 2 January 2017

Game-theoretic approaches to social norms

Presenter: Janky Béla

 

Presented reading

Paternotte, C., & Grose, J. (2012). Social Norms and Game Theory: Harmony or Discord?. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 64: 551-587.

 

Further readings 

 
 
 

 Fourth Meeting, 31 January 2017

Weber's theories on values (insights, inconsistencies and ideological spinoffs)

Presenter: Lakatos Zoltán

Intro (in Hungarian)

Presented readings

Lakatos, Zoltán. 2011. “Az elektív affinitás: A fogalom hanyagolásának okai és következményei a társadalomtudományban.” Elpis 5: 102–19.

Oakes, Guy. 2003. “Max Weber on Value Rationality and Value Spheres: Critical Remarks.” Journal of Classical Sociology 3: 27–45.

Turner, Bryan S. 2010. “Islam, Capitalism and the Weber Theses.” The British Journal of Sociology 61 Suppl 1: 147–60.

Turner, Bryan S. 2010. “Revisiting Weber and Islam.” The British Journal of Sociology 61 Suppl 1: 161–66.

 

Further readings

Chalcraft, David J., and Austin (eds.) Harrington. 2001. The Protestant Ethic Debate: Max Weber’s Replies to His Critics, 1907-1910. Translated by David J. Chalcraft and Austin Harrington. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. [Akit érdekel Weber teljes -- nemcsak a kanonizált -- protestáns etika tanulmánya: összesen négy cikk, melyből kettőt két kritikus két-két tanulmányára válaszul írt. Alapos kommentárokkal.]

Weber, Max. 1946. “Religious Rejections of The World and Their Directions.” In From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, edited by Hans Heinrich Gerth and Charles Wright Mills, 323–59.

Weber, Max. 1978. Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. "I. Basic Sociological Terms" (3-62), "II. Sociological Categories of Economic Action" (63-211)

Weber, Max. 2002. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Other Writings. New York: Penguin Classics. [Azért ezt az angol fordítást jelöltem meg, mert az "elektív affinitás" fogalma ebben már megjelenik -- az általam ismert, 1982-es magyar fordításban viszont nem]

 

Fifth meeting, 21 February

Schwartz

Presenter: Lakatos Zoltán

Intro (in Hungarian)

Presented readings

Schwartz, S. H. (1994). Are there universal aspects in the structure and contents of human values?. Journal of social issues, 50(4), 19-45.

Schwartz, Shalom H. 2006. “A Theory of Cultural Value Orientations: Explication and Applications.” Comparative Sociology 5: 137–82.

Davidov, Eldad, Peter Schmidt, and Shalom H. Schwartz. 2008. “Bringing Values Back In: The Adequacy of the European Social Survey to Measure Values in 20 Countries.” Public Opinion Quarterly 72: 420–45.

Further readings

Schwartz, Shalom H. 2013. “Rethinking the Concept and Measurement of Societal Culture in Light of Empirical Findings.” Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 45: 5–13.

Cieciuch, Jan, Eldad Davidov, M. Vecchione, C. Beierlein, and Shalom H. Schwartz. 2014. “The Cross-National Invariance Properties of a New Scale to Measure 19 Basic Human Values: A Test Across Eight Countries.” Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 45: 764–76.

Cieciuch, Jan, Eldad Davidov, Michele Vecchione, and Shalom H. Schwartz. 2014. “A Hierarchical Structure of Basic Human Values in a Third-Order Confirmatory Factor Analysis.” Swiss Journal of Psychology 73: 177–82.

Vecchione, Michele, Shalom H. Schwartz, Gian Vittorio Caprara, Harald Schoen, Jan Cieciuch, Jo Silvester, Paul Bain, et al. 2015. “Personal Values and Political Activism: A Cross-National Study.” British Journal of Psychology 106: 84–106.

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Fischer, R., & Boer, D. (2015). Motivational Basis of Personality Traits: A Meta‐Analysis of Value‐Personality Correlations. Journal of personality, 83(5), 491-510.

Schwartz, S. H., & Bilsky, W. (1987). Toward a universal psychological structure of human values. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53(3), 550.

 

 

Sixth meeting, 28 February

Inglehart

Presenter: Lakatos Zoltán

Intro (in Hungarian)

 

Presented readings

Inglehart, Ronald. 1971. “The Silent Revolution in Europe: Intergenerational Change in Post-Industrial Societies.” The American Political Science Review 65: 991–1017.

Inglehart, Ronald. 1981. “Post-Materialism in an Environment of Insecurity.” The American Political Science Review 75: 880–900.

Inglehart, Ronald, and Scott C. Flanagan. 1987. “Value Change in Industrial Societies.” The American Political Science Review 81: 1289–1319.

Inglehart, R., & Baker, W. E. (2000). Modernization, cultural change, and the persistence of traditional values. American sociological review, 65(1): 19-51.

 

Further readings

Schwartz, Shalom H. 2006. “A Theory of Cultural Value Orientations: Explication and Applications.” Comparative Sociology 5: 137–82.

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