RECOGNIZING THE OTHER AS A TEST OF EUROPEANNESS
THE VALUE-BASED FOUNDATIONS OF INDIVIDUAL 
REFLEXIVITY IN THE ERA OF LATE MODERNITY Cover Image

RECOGNIZING THE OTHER AS A TEST OF EUROPEANNESS THE VALUE-BASED FOUNDATIONS OF INDIVIDUAL REFLEXIVITY IN THE ERA OF LATE MODERNITY
RECOGNIZING THE OTHER AS A TEST OF EUROPEANNESS THE VALUE-BASED FOUNDATIONS OF INDIVIDUAL REFLEXIVITY IN THE ERA OF LATE MODERNITY

Author(s): Zoltán Grünhut
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Governance, Comparative politics
Published by: Scoala Nationala de Studii Politice si Administrative (SNSPA)
Keywords: Europeanness; European Social Survey; late Modernity; othering; Shalom H. Schwartz; values;

Summary/Abstract: The paper both theoretically and empirically examines the interrelationship between the act of othering (i.e. self-identification via distantiation from the ‘Other’) and the attachment to Europe, while it also addresses the value-based ontological foundations of these epistemologically relevant and praxis-related features. Late Modernity is proposed as a general framework that can hold together these components conceptually. The empirical findings are about 18 EU member states; data were obtained from the European Social Survey (2018). As a general conclusion the paper stresses that people who prefer the relative importance of values about diversity and self-transcendence, they are more open towards the ‘Other’, while they are more attached to Europe as well.

  • Issue Year: 13/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 125-147
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: English
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