ICOS Presents:

"Shared Values and Social Capital"

Professor Wayne Baker

Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

February 17, 2006

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Introduction (00:00:00)

Title Slide (00:02:15)

Overview (00:02:28)

A Divided Nation? (00:03:40)

Widespread perception of a crisis of values (00:04:25)

Some survey evidence (00:05:02)

More survey evidence (00:05:34)

Three hypotheses (00:06:21)

What are values? (00:07:16)

Traditional/secular-rational values (00:08:16)

Survival/self-expression values (00:12:01)

Locations of the 65 societies (00:13:23)

Values and economic development (00:15:33)

Locations of the 65 societies (00:16:08)

Loss of traditional values? (00:17:20)

Culture War? (00:18:19)

Culture War thesis: two hypotheses (00:19:19)

Moral Visions (00:21:38)

Moral Visions (2) (00:22:49)

Polarization hypothesis (00:24:36)

Percentage of absolutists (00:26:51)

Moral visions in global context (00:27:37)

Polarization hypothesis: Values (00:28:32)

Polarization hypothesis: Attitudes and behaviors (00:29:51)

Linkage hypothesis: Model (00:31:47)

Linkage hypothesis: Moral visions and religious beliefs (00:32:31)

Linkage hypothesis: Moral visions and belonging to a church or religious organization (00:33:36)

Separation of Church and State (00:34:07)

Indicators of social attitudes about separation of church and state (00:35:26)

Linkage hypothesis: All three levels (00:35:58)

Values --> voting (DAS) (00:36:59)

Linkage hypothesis: All three levels (00:37:18)

Values --> voting (DAS) (00:37:27)

Values --> Market Attitudes (DAS) (00:39:17)

Summary of key findings (00:40:36)

The reality-perception gap (00:41:31)

Growing incongruence of values (00:42:27)

Value incongruence creates a perception of crisis (00:43:40)

Legitimate Perceptions (00:45:53)

Conjectures (00:46:15)

Detroit Area Study, Detroit Arab American Study (00:46:48)

Moral Visions (00:47:31)

Map (00:48:18)

Variation (00:49:37)

Explaining variation in values (00:50:21)

U.S. Born v. Immigrants, DAAS and DAS (00:51:05)

High v. Low Education, DAAS and DAS (00:52:21)

Effects of Receiving Expressions of Support After 9/11 -- DAAS (00:53:11)

Conclusion: Two Sides of Community & Organizations (00:54:16)

Tocqueville on the importance of networks (00:55:28)

Tocqueville on the importance of shared values, norms, and meanings (00:56:06)

Values --> networks/participation (00:56:41)

More examples (00:57:31)

Applied to Organizations (00:58:51)

America's Crisis of Values: Reality and Perception, Chapter 1 (01:02:38)

Presentation of Tile (01:26:15)

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