Category Archives: Spain

EVS Panel at the 76 WAPOR Conference

In the context of the 76° Conference of the World Association of Public Opinion Research, held in Salisburg from 18 to 22 September 2023, the EVS organized a panel chaired by Ruud Luijkx (chair of the Executive Committee) and Michael Ochsner (Chair of the Scientific Committee of the EVS).

After introducing the audience to the EVS project, some EVS scholars presented their research work:

Vera Lomazzi (University of Bergamo, Italy): Gender Equality Values and Cultural Orientations: Insights from the European Values Study


Markus Quandt (GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany), Vera Lomazzi (University of Bergamo, Italy): ‘Close’ and ‘Universal’ Solidarity in Europe. Exploring Differences and Antecedents of Attitudinal Solidarity, using the European Values Study 2017

Milos Besic (University of Belgrade, Serbia): The Predictive Capacity of Fair Elections on Institutional Strength,
HDI, GDP per Capita, and Interpersonal Trust: A Country-Level Analysis


Alice Ramos (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Jorge Vala (University of Lisbon, Portugal): Are Childrearing Values’ Preferences in Europe Associated to Socioeconomic Development and Social Inequalities?


Edurne Bartolomé Peral (Peral University of Deusto, Spain), Hermann Duelmer (University of Cologne, Germany), Pascal Siegers (GESIS -Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany), Tilo Beckers (Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf, Germany): “Who shall live, and who shall die?” – Attitudes Towards Medical Triage during the Covid pandemic: Results from an Experimental Design Using Factorial Survey

Other members of EVS contributed to the program in other sessions:

Natalia Soboleva (HSE University, Russia), Boris Sokolov (HSE University, Russia): Labor Market Status Change and life Satisfaction During the Coronavirus Pandemic (the Evidence of Values in Crisis Study)

Yilmaz Esmer (Bahcesehir University, Turkey), Duygu Karadon (Bahcesehir University, Turkey): Demand for Populism in the Black Sea Region: A Cultural Values Approach to Populist Politics

Bobby Duffy (King’s College London, UK), Paul Stoneman (King’s College London, UK), James Wright (King’s College London, UK): Generations and Attitudes Towards Society and Democracy



Premio Gizarte Saria 2021

María Silvestre, Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the University of Deusto and member of the Executive Committee of European Values Study, has been distinguished with the Gizarte Saria Award 2021, awarded by the Basque Association of Sociology and Political Science by vote of its associates.

The award ceremony took place last Friday, December 17, 2021, at the hands of the President of the AVSP, Pepe Oleaga, who in his speech valued the professional and personal qualities of the researcher, as well as her dedication to the Association.

Congratulations!

On December 17, the AVSP-ESZPE presented the Gizarte Saria 2021 award to María Silvestre (Spanish)

The challenges of the COVID pandemic: cultural changes and social values

On December 17th at 10 (CET), the Romanian Group for the Study of Social Values organizes a webinar that brings  together  scholars  from  the  community  studying  social  values,  and   contributes to the understanding of the challenges brought by the pandemic to our societies. 

Three academic presentations are proposed: 

• Edurne Bartolome Peral1, Lluís Coromina Soler2, Hermann Dülmer3, Values under pressure,
a study on value change during the Covid-19 crisis in Spain 
• Tatiana Karabchuk4, Implication of the Cultural Evolution Theory to Explain Social Behaviour
under COVID-19 
•  Malina Voicu5 & Simona Maria Stănescu5, Mortality in times of COVID crisis. Are democracies
better in controlling the outbreak? 

Discussant: Bogdan Voicu5                                                                                                                                                                          

Chair: Claudiu Tufiș6 

Attending the webinar is free, but registration is needed. 

Affiliation of the authors: 

1 University of Deusto – Bilbao, Department of International Relations and Humanities 

2 University of Girona 

3 University of Cologne   

4 United Arab Emirate University  

5 Romanian Academy, Research Institute for Quality of Life 
6 University of Bucharest, Department of Political Science 

Webinar: Value changes in pandemic times, 2020.11.27

Organized by the Romanian Group for Studying Social Values, this webinar brought together scholars from the community studying social values, and contributes to understanding the changes that Covid19 brings to the social fabric.

Four academic presentations, based on accepted papers in a special issue of European Societies, are proposed. A final discussion of common messages in the papers is delivered by Vera Lomazzi13

  • Tim Reeskens10, Quita Muis10, Inge Sieben10, Leen Vandecasteele11, Ruud Luijkx10 & Loek Halman10 Stability or change of public opinion and values during the coronavirus crisis? Exploring Dutch longitudinal panel data (Full paper here)
  • Malina Voicu1 & Delia Bădoi1, Fertility and the COVID-19 crisis: do gender roles really matter? (Full paper here)
  • Francesco Molteni12, Riccardo Ladini12, Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi12, Antonio M. Chiesi12, Giulia Maria Dotti Sani12, Simona Guglielmi12, Marco Maraffi12, Andrea Pedrazzani12, Paolo Segatti12 & Cristiano Vezzoni12. Searching for comfort in religion: insecurity and religious behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy (Full paper here)
  • Bogdan Voicu1,2, Edurne Bartolomé Peral3, Horațiu Rusu2,1, Gergely Rosta4,5, Mircea Comșa6, Octavian-Marian Vasile1,7, Lluís Coromina 8, Claudiu D. Tufis9. COVID-19 and orientations towards solidarity. The cases of Spain, Hungary, and Romania (Full paper available soon)

00:00:00 Start streaming 00:11:24 Start of the Webinar 00:14:30 Tim Reeskens 00:46:04 Delia Bădoi & Malina Voicu 01:17:16 Francesco Molteni 01:50:03 Bogdan Voicu 02:18:52 Vera Lomazzi

Webinar: Value changes in pandemic times

On Friday, 27th of November at 10 (CET), the Romanian Group for Studying Social Values organizes the webinar “Value changes in pandemic times”.

The webinar brings together scholars from the community studying social values, and contributes to understanding the changes that Covid19 brought to the social fabric.

Four academic presentations are proposed:

  • Tim Reeskens10, Quita Muis10, Inge Sieben10, Leen Vandecasteele11, Ruud Luijkx10 & Loek Halman10 Stability or change of public opinion and values during the coronavirus crisis? Exploring Dutch longitudinal panel data (Full paper here)
  • Malina Voicu1 & Delia Bădoi1, Fertility and the COVID-19 crisis: do gender roles really matter? (Full paper here)
  • Francesco Molteni12, Riccardo Ladini12, Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi12, Antonio M. Chiesi12, Giulia Maria Dotti Sani12, Simona Guglielmi12, Marco Maraffi12, Andrea Pedrazzani12, Paolo Segatti12 & Cristiano Vezzoni12. Searching for comfort in religion: insecurity and religious behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy (Full paper here)
  • Bogdan Voicu1,2, Edurne Bartolomé Peral3, Horațiu Rusu2,1, Gergely Rosta4,5, Mircea Comșa6, Octavian-Marian Vasile1,7, Lluís Coromina 8, Claudiu D. Tufis9. COVID-19 and orientations towards solidarity. The cases of Spain, Hungary, and Romania (Full paper available soon)

All presentations are based on accepted papers in a special issue of European Societies.

There are allotted 20 minutes for presentation, followed by 15 minutes for questions, comments, and answers. A final discussion of common messages in the papers will be delivered by Vera Lomazzi13.

Attending the webinar is free, but registration is necessary.

The event is supported by the Romanian Quantitative Studies Association and the Research Institute
for Quality of Life
 (Grant GAR-UM-2019-XI-5.3-9).

Affiliations of the authors:
1
Romanian Academy, Research Institute for Quality of Life; 2Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Department of Sociology; 3University of Deusto – Bilbao, Department of International Relations and Humanities; 4Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Institute of Sociology; 5University of Münster; 6Babeș-Bolyai University, Department of Sociology; 7 University of Bucharest, Department of Sociology; 8 University of Girona, Department of Economics; 9 University of Bucharest, Department of Political Science; 10 Tilburg University, Department of Sociology; 11 Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Lausanne; 12 University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Science;13 GESIS Leibniz-Institute for Social Sciences

EVS2017: Results in spain

Valores en la era de la incertidumbre: individualismos y solidaridades

The Spanish EVS team published the book “Valores en la era de la incertidumbre: individualismos y solidaridades”, edited by María Silvestre Cabrera (former EVS National Program Director in Spain).

The book focuses on the EVS2017 results in Spain, whose fieldwork took place between late 2017 and early 2018. It consists of almost one hundred questions on the values of citizenship, values that are grouped into large thematic dimensions of analysis: family, work, friendships, leisure, politics, religion, personal satisfaction and quality of life, attitudes towards migratory movements, social capital, social solidarity, identities, etc.
This fifth wave shows us a Spanish society that was beginning to feel the relief of the hardships of the economic crisis, but that had very close to its memory. This has meant that uncertainty and precariousness persist but, at the same time, hand in hand with an individualism that is based on the defence of free choice, new forms of solidarity have emerged that recognise the vulnerable person as being close to them, in a recognisable situation of which they are not to blame, which provokes empathy and social recognition. Individualism persists, even in times of uncertainty, but it is not alien to social solidarity. But it also shows us a dual Spain, which shares in a very unanimous way certain fundamental principles, such as support for democracy or the legitimacy of the welfare state, but which, in others, reminds us that this country has been trying for centuries to string together diverse identities, dual ideologies and a social stratification that is not quite egalitarian.

Content:

Introducción, María Silvestre Cabrera
Capítulo 1. Bienestar personal, asociacionismo y participación ciudadana, Ane Ferrán, Cinta Guinot y Bakarne Etxeberria
Capítulo 2. Familia, género y cambio social: un acercamiento a los valores familiares en el imaginario colectivo de la sociedad española, Raquel Royo, Lía González y Maialen Suárez
Capítulo 3. El valor del trabajo, Iratxe Aristegui, Usue Beloki y Estíbaliz Linares
Capítulo 4. El valor del ocio: significado y evolución, Joseba Doistua, Idurre Lazcano y Aurora Madariaga
Capítulo 5. Valores y creencias religiosas de los españoles, Manuel M. Urrutia
Capítulo 6. Los valores políticos de los españoles: actitudes políticas, confianza en instituciones, eficacia política y postmaterialismo, Edurne Bartolomé, Jone Goirigolzarri y Maite Aurrekoetxea
Capítulo 7. Preguntas de ayer, respuestas de mañana: confianza en el estado del bienestar y centralidad del cuidado, Felix Arrieta, Ainhoa Izaguirre y Martín Zuñiga
Capítulo 8. Capital social, solidaridad e identidades, Rafael Leonisio y María Silvestre
Capítulo 9. Actitudes y valores ante las personas migrantes, Patricia Espinosa, Mabel Segú y Edurne González
Capítulo 10. Evolución de los valores finalistas y principios éticos en España y Europa (2008-2017): ¿hemos cambiado?, Arantxa Rodríguez-Berrio, Emma Sobremonte y Amaia Mosteiro
Capítulo 11. Una tipología de la sociedad española en cuatro clústeres, Javier Elzo y Jon P. Laka
Aspectos metodológicos en torno a la oleada de 2017 de la Encuesta Europea de Valores, Rafael Leonisio y Edurne Bartolomé
Anexo. Cuestionario