America's Crisis of Values: Reality and Perception

Apr 12, 2005

University of Michigan

Mr. Baker talked about his book America's Crisis of Values: Reality and Perception, published by Princeton University Press, about the persistence of traditional American values. The author argues that despite public opinion polls and the beliefs of many politicians, America has not lost its traditional values. Mr. Baker uses data from .. Read More
Mr. Baker talked about his book America's Crisis of Values: Reality and Perception, published by Princeton University Press, about the persistence of traditional American values. The author argues that despite public opinion polls and the beliefs of many politicians, America has not lost its traditional values. Mr. Baker uses data from the World Values Surveys to show that the United States is in good standing in relation to most other countries and societies. Among the issues he addressed were current perceptions about cultural values, surveys findings on the definitions of moral and cultural values, and the implications of the widespread and commonly held values on policy issues. Following his remarks he answered questions from members of the audience.

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00:00:24 none IN THE WAY OF AN INTRODUCTION THEN, WAYNE BAKER IS PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION AND DIRECTOR...
00:02:05 Unidentified Speaker WELL, THANK YOU, BARB, FOR THAT KIND INTRODUCTION. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY...
00:30:44 Unidentified Speaker LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF THE PARADOX YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. I AM A REPUBLICAN WITH A LYNER TARN...
00:31:50 Unidentified Speaker I THINK YOU'RE -- I THINK YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND REMARKS ARE QUITE CONSISTENT WITH MY MESSAGE. AND...
00:32:16 Unidentified Speaker LET ME TRY TO PUT THIS QUESTION TOGETHER ON THE CUFF HERE. THERE'S A LOT OF PRESS THAT PEOPLE IN...
00:32:41 Unidentified Speaker AN INTERESTING QUESTION. IT DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU ARE IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD, I SUPPOSE. IF YOU'RE...
00:33:22 Unidentified Speaker YOU INDICATED TRADITIONAL VALUES RELATE TO BELIEF IN GOD AND MAYBE THE BELIEF IN LIFE AFTER DEATH....
00:33:55 Unidentified Speaker WELL, WHEN YOU LOOK AT HOW VALUES HAVE CHANGED AROUND THE WORLD, THAT'S GENERALLY BEEN A MOVE FOR...
00:34:20 Unidentified Speaker THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR TALKING ABOUT A PARADOX. THIS PARADOX THAT WE ALL LIVE WITH. I'M WONDERING...
00:35:14 Unidentified Speaker I THINK I WOULD LABEL THAT AS TRADITIONAL VALUE, NOT SELF-EXPRESSION BECAUSE SELF-EXPRESSION VALUES...
00:35:31 Unidentified Speaker BUT IT'S THEIR OWN -- I MEAN, MEAN, --
00:35:34 Unidentified Speaker BUT IT'S BASED ON SOMETHING. IT'S NOT BASED ON THEIR SELF-EXPRESSION VALUES BUT THEIR TRADITIONAL VALUES....
00:35:44 Unidentified Speaker SO ENWHEN YOU -- MY OTHER QUESTION IS, YOU SAID IF I UNDERSTOOD YOU RIGHT, THAT WE HAVE BECOME ESTRANGED...
00:35:57 Unidentified Speaker YES. THE POLITICAL PARTY --
00:35:58 Unidentified Speaker YEAH. AND CAN YOU GIVE US SOME IDEA HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN AND WHY DO WE HAVE THAT? BECAUSE TO ME,...
00:36:24 Unidentified Speaker IT'S A WORRY TO ME TOO BECAUSE I THINK THE PARTIES HAVE GOTTEN PRETTY ESTRANGED FROM THE MAINSTREAM....
00:36:36 Unidentified Speaker WELL, DO YOU FEEL THE POLITICAL SYSTEM IS RESPONSIVE
00:36:39 Unidentified Speaker I'M SORRY. GO BACK TO THE MIC.
00:36:43 Unidentified Speaker I'M SORRY. BUT DO YOU FEEL THE SYSTEM IS RESPONSIVE NOW TO THE PEOPLE, THE POLITICAL SYSTEM YOU SAY,...
00:37:24 Unidentified Speaker YEAH, I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF REASONS WHY A VOTE TURNS OUT A PARTICULAR WAY. LET ME CONNECT TO ONE...
00:38:11 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT YOUR DEFINITION OF TRADITIONAL, BECAUSE IS IT TRADITIONAL FOR US OR OTHER...
00:38:31 Unidentified Speaker A GOOD QUESTION. INFANT SIDE WAS ONCE A
00:38:33 Unidentified Speaker SURE.
00:38:38 Unidentified Speaker SO IT IS REALLY WHAT WE WE CONSIDER MORE RECENT TRADITIONS OR TRADITIONS THAT MIGHT GO BACK OVER A...
00:38:43 Unidentified Speaker I THINK IT'S TRADITION IN LARGE PARTS OF THE MUSLIM WORLD. EVEN UP TO THE PRESENT DAY. SO HOW DOES...
00:38:52 Unidentified Speaker THE MAIN COMPONENT OF TRADITIONAL VALUES IS RELIGIOUS AND THE BELIEF IN GOD. THAT'S VERY HIGH. IT...
00:39:05 Unidentified Speaker OK. AND MY SECOND QUESTION WAS YOU MENTIONED I THINK SURVIVAL VALUES, AND A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT...
00:39:32 Unidentified Speaker SELF-EXPRESSION VALUES?
00:39:34 Unidentified Speaker YEAH, THE OPPOSITE OF THE FOCUS ON MATERIALISM OR DECLINE IN POLITICAL PARTICIPATION.
00:39:39 Unidentified Speaker THERE'S A TREND TOWARD POST MATERIALIST VALUES IN THE U.S. YOU CAN FIND PEOPLE IN THE U.S. WHO HAVE...
00:40:16 Unidentified Speaker COULD YOU COMMENT ON WHY THE VOTER PARTICIPATION IS SO LOW IN THE U.S.? AND HOW THAT RELATES TO YOUR...
00:40:27 Unidentified Speaker IT'S INTERESTING, PEOPLE WHO HAVE MORE SELF-EXPRESSION ORIENTED VALUES ARE MORE LIKELY TO TURN OUT...
00:40:52 Unidentified Speaker I HAD ANOTHER QUESTION. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE PREPARED TO ANSWER IT. I WAS -- WHEN YOU WERE TALKING...
00:41:23 Unidentified Speaker ISRAEL HAS BEEN INCLUDED IN THE SURVEYS. IT'S NOT THIS PARTICULAR MAP, BUT IT'S ABOUT RIGHT HERE....
00:41:48 Unidentified Speaker NO, SO IT'S STILL MORE SURVIVAL ORIENTED?
00:41:55 Unidentified Speaker YEP.
00:41:56 Unidentified Speaker IF ATTITUDES HAVE BEEN STABLE AS YOU SAID FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS, WHY DOES IT FEEL MUCH MORE CONSERVATIVE...
00:42:04 Unidentified Speaker WELL, IT DOES FEEL MORE CONSERVATIVE I THINK BECAUSE OF -- OF THAT POLITICAL PROCESS THAT I DESCRIBED....
00:42:52 Unidentified Speaker IF WE'RE NOT A DIVIDED COUNTRY, HOW DO WEDGE ISSUES WORK? HOW DO I CREATE A WEDGE ISSUE THAT CAN SPLIT...
00:43:02 Unidentified Speaker WELL, I THINK -- DO YOU HAVE
00:43:04 Unidentified Speaker PICK ONE. GAY MARRIAGE, ABORTION. YOU COULD PICK ANY NUMBER OF THOSE, BUT THEY WERE DEFINITELY AN...
00:43:19 Unidentified Speaker WELL, IF YOU LOOK AT -- YOU KNOW, ABORTION TAKES PLACE IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS AND CIRCUMSTANCES. IF...
00:43:43 Unidentified Speaker BUT WHY DOES IT SPLIT PEOPLE INTO YES OR NO CAMPS?
00:43:47 Unidentified Speaker SOMETIMES IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU ASK THE QUESTION. IF YOU ASK, IS ABORTION MURDER, YOU GET A MORE NUANCED...
00:43:59 Unidentified Speaker IF YOU'RE GIVING ADVICE TO A POLITICAL CANDIDATE, AND HE ASKED YOU OR SHE ASKED YOU I WANT TO FIGURE...
00:44:16 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD SAY THAT'S NOT THE PROES PRODUCTIVE STRATEGY. I THINK ONE THAT IS, HAVE SOMEONE WHO EMBRACES...
00:44:33 Unidentified Speaker BUT I THINK THEY CALL THEM A WAFFLER FOR DOING THAT.
00:44:36 Unidentified Speaker BUT IT'S INTERESTING, -- WELL IT'S INTERESTING. IN THE SPEECH THAT HILLARY CLINTON HAD GIVEN WHERE...
00:45:02 Unidentified Speaker ARE YOU SUGGESTING THAT THE MEDIA IS NOT ALLOWING PEOPLE TO FIND THE NUANCED POSITION AND AND ALLOW...
00:45:09 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THE NEWSPAPERS ARE TRYING TO BOOST MARKET SHARE AND PLAYING UP THE IDEA OF A SIMPLE DIVIDE...
00:45:24 Unidentified Speaker THEY SAY THAT AMERICA'S LARGEST EXPORT IS OUR CULTURE. HAVE YOU SEEN EVIDENCE OF THAT IN OTHER COUNTRIES,...
00:45:36 Unidentified Speaker YEAH. PEOPLE ARE WORRIED ABOUT THAT. TALKING OF THE MCDONALDIZATION OF THE WORLD OR THE HOLLYWOODIZATION...
00:46:08 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE A QUESTION. YOU MENTIONED THAT THE POLITICAL SIDES NOW ARE TOO FAR AWAY OF THE COMMON GROUND...
00:46:27 Unidentified Speaker I DON'T KNOW. MY TALK ISN'T ABOUT VOTING. I HAZARDED A GUESS THERE. YOU HAVE TO REALIZE IT'S THE ...
00:47:05 Unidentified Speaker SO I'D LIKE TO ASK, SO YOU KNOW YOU THINK OF MORAL ISSUES, HEAR ABOUT BACK IN THE '50'S WITH ELVIS...
00:47:29 Unidentified Speaker HOW OLD ARE YOU?
00:47:31 Unidentified Speaker OK. THANK YOU.
00:47:34 Unidentified Speaker EXTRA CREDIT FOR ENGLISH. [LAUGHTER ]
00:47:35 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. ACTUALLY, LET ME -- THERE'S BEEN A NEW SURVEY THAT'S BEEN RELEASED THAT HAS LOOKED AT THE...
00:48:38 Unidentified Speaker YEAH, THANK YOU.
00:48:45 Unidentified Speaker I GUESS SHOW MY AGE, I GUESS, BUT WE USED TO TALK ABOUT THE ANALYSIS, AND CATHOLIC'S ANALYSIS. DOES...
00:49:01 Unidentified Speaker WELL, I SUPPOSE IT DOES. IF YOU'RE LOOKING AGAIN AT WHERE THE -- YOU KNOW WHERE RUSSIA IS GOING AND...
00:49:53 Unidentified Speaker I THINK ALL OF US ARE HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE WE'RE REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THIS ISSUE. SO IF YOU COULD...
00:50:15 Unidentified Speaker YES. AN IMPORTANT QUESTION. I THINK -- YOU KNOW, RIGHT AFTER THE ELECTION, PEOPLE REALLY DID FEEL...

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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