The impact of Religion on Values and Behavior

By: Wolfgang Jagodzinski

First, following the steps, there’s the Brainstorming, the Skim & Scan, and the last and
more important; the KLW scheme, that will help us to have a better approach of the
material. That’s concercing at the before the reading step.

Start by the brainstorming and KWL schemes that illustrates an sketch about the research
of these authors. There are a few words that I think could relate, results of my thought
before the reading the text:

Brainstorming

morality, choices, faith, beliefs, society, modernism, right/wrong actions, normality,

attitudes, trascendental, barrier, punish if I do something wrong, culture, conservator,
catholicism, abstract, complex, satisfaction, dogma, doctrine.

What I Know What I Want to Know What I’ve Learned

First, I knew that the  Learn how the many religions  That the values or work
attitudes and beliefs thought about the difference
The
have a problem to be
could be a  An bare explanation about the measuring reliably.
trascendental and less levels of the religion, according to  Maybe the work values are
experimental way to the macro and micro important for the economic
predict the behavior.  How the influence in the behavior success of a society but
in particular scenarios only the work values of a
 The relevancy in the economic relatively small group of
people in higher
development
occupations
 The protestant ethic is
overrated a little bit.

There we are two of the remaining schemes: Skim and Scan, I’ve wanted to put ir together
because, they seems similar in the fact that both are obtained in the same

Skim Scan

Relationship between religion, values and behavior. Protestant Ethic

There are many levels on religion according the macro-micro Macro-Micro design
levels. Self-determination
Hypothesis influence
We do not expect the Protestant Ethics to persist should the one Sketch of the model
 who work hard deserves more incomes. Type of religion
Relation between the many types of religions and values economy
equality
Authors mentioned:
Inglehart
Max Weber
Kazufumi Manabe
Fijzbein and Ajzen

Having a little guide, we can start the MRP and taking notes

The abstract mention that there are problems respect the theory, the analysis,
relations unexplored (Religion and work ethics). Also, the paper explore the
basis postmodern values of self-determination.
broad
manifold About religion, the analysis here is explained by two levels, the micro and
macro level. The micro level consist of individual aspect, the exposure onto the
religion, internalized values and belief, attitudes about the action and beliefs
toward the action itself. In the other side. The macro level is conceptualized by
the presentation of religion as a meaning system, It compend all the symbols,
belief, teaching and doctrines, documents and holy textbooks. In this model, is
norms, independent from the actual society.
and values
are inde-
pendent
from each other

Max Weber
investigated the
processes led to
the rise of
capitalism
focusing on the
meaning system
and the According to Jagodzinski, (2009): “In this way, religion could affect them if the
aggregate level. values under consideration are not part of the meaning system or if the system
Studied the meaning can influence it’s own part in particular values.”
relation between
etich and Another important quote is which that include that Lannacone and Stark
religion assume: “free competition on the religious market will increase visibility and
quality of religious product and as a consequence stimulate religious
participation,...”
 you have to take into consideration what Fijzben & Ajzen propose: “individuals
the influence of who are continuously exposed to religion will adopt certain belief and values
protestant ethic which them structure attitudes and beliefs about behavior”
has
dissapeared? However, when a capitalist system is established in the economy, ethics at
work based on religion is no longer required. For competition or working hard
to stay at the top gives diligence. Jagodzinski tries to create an similar
entailed aggregate level higher but with different indicators.

Scale of World
value reliably Weber guess that a specific ethic embedded in the religion belief system which
promote the spirit of the capitalism and economy success.

The hypothesis of this approach:

Obviously the
protestant H1: The population in Protestant and religiously mixed societies with a larger
countries were proportion of Protestants should on the average attribute a higher importance
much more to competitive activism, hard work, and thrift than people in other societies.
efficient in H2: The population in Asian countries with a Confucian tradition should, on
establishing average, attribute a higher importance to competitive activism, hard work, and
structures which thrift than people in other societies.
actually reduce H3: Protestant and Anglo-Saxon societies to place a higher emphasis on
the corruption gender equality.
more efficiently H4: On the average members of Protestant West European societies and to a
than the others lesser extent countries of the Anglo-Saxon zone display a higher tolerance
BIAS towards homosexuality than members of other cultures.
ALERT(???)
The scale is constituted by answers that went for 1 to 4, where a lower score,
scarce greater importance to work. This research was contrasted by contrasting the
nor confidence interval for each of the religions. And it was obtained that the
insolar majority was located in the values of 1.4 to 1.8 and only Muslims, Christian
Muslims and Hindus were among the first 3 of the range. So it can be said that
most believe that the importance of the Protestant ethic has not been lost.

He also propound that social desirability could be inflated and explain how
German it’s very successful and they in a majority not consider that job is too
CONFIDENCE important. Jagodzinski pose that there’s only one way to interpret those
INTERVAL? results: assuming that the item really measures work orientation.

Following one of the remaining graphs, which report the percentage of

respondents i each religious zone who mention hard work as a child poverty. In
which Orthodox rank first and the other countries follow with high percentages
too.
The fact,
however, that
Later, the author briefly examine beliefs about fair payment and the attitude
Protestant
toward bribery. More of the countries rank over 70%, something that are
countries rank
consonant with the theory.
fairly low on the
bribery
perceptions About the religion and so called postmodern values, the results are consonant
index of with the third hypothesis
transparency
Following the same ideas about postmodern values, the data correspond to
international, our hypothesis, it is also pointed out that homosexuality is used as an indicator
weakly supports of self-determination in the theory of post-modernity.
the assumption
that the Focusing on the conclusion, the author explain briefly 3 points about the
Protestant ethic results
may have  About the importance or work it doesn’t reflect an internationalized
promoted the moral norm as the demand for work
generation of  Other norm of the achievement society have become universal in the
institutions sense that almost all people on the globe knows the norm
which effectively  Verbal norm compliance does not guarantee norm conform behavior.
reduce bribery
About the approach relevance, we have 3 situations of why it’s not the best in
this topic:
 The difficult measuring work values reliably.
 Maybe work values are reliably measured but they have no or little
influence on work efficiency and productivity
 Maybe the work values are important for the economic success of a
society but only the work values of a relatively small group of people in
higher occupations

Finally, can delimit about bribery, that while most adults in our society work,
hopefully only few are involved in bribery. This makes it rather unlikely to find a
relationship between the average attitude in a mass survey and aggregated
behavior, even if a relationship actually exists