Valued M + A

Unvalued C + X

Description

Individual-egalitarian values

View and relation to people as unique individuals of equal standing.

Society envisioned as one of expanding personal freedoms and constitutional limits on power.

Independence of thought, identity, and action from collective norms and authority.

Rights- and freedom-expanding social vision.

Negative extreme: anarchy.

General Meaning

Horizontal communication

Intellectual Level

Personal worldview

Social Level

Horizontal structures, person as unique individual

Psychological Level

Informal, equal relationships regardless of group

Physical Level

Private and self-organized material life

Spectrum Clusters

The characteristic factors

1
Cluster Description

Individual freedom and autonomy

2
Cluster Description

Egalitarianism and horizontal connections

3
Cluster Description

Protection of rights and transparency

4
Cluster Description

Anti-authoritarianism and skepticism toward hierarchies

5
Cluster Description

Humanitarian values and individuality