Traditional values emphasize the importance of religion, parent-child ties, deference to authority and traditional family values. People who embrace these values also reject divorce, abortion, euthanasia and suicide. These societies have high levels of national pride and a nationalistic outlook.
Secular-rational values have the opposite preferences to the traditional values. These societies place less emphasis on eligion, traditional family values and authority. Divorce, abortion, euthanasia and suicide are seen as relatively acceptable. (Suicide is not necessarily more common.)
Survival values place emphasis on economic and physical security. It is linked with a relatively ethnocentric outlook and low levels of trust and tolerance.
Self-expression values give high priority to environmental protection, growing tolerance of foreigners, gays and lesbians and gender equality, and rising demands for participation in decision-making in economic and political life.
source: http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.jsp
Can you see any interesting conclusions in these findings?
It's interesting to see at the differences between countries, and that some are more extreme that others, as they seem. When living in your own "world" you sometimes forget where you stand in comparence to others: are you traditional or secular? Are you survivalist or self-expressionist? etc.
