Inglehart’ın Değer Dönüşüm Teorisi: Akademisyenler Üzerine Bir İnceleme

Abstract

In today’s information age, countries interact closely with each other. Each country or society has its own values. However, there may be changes in the values of societies in time. In integrated societies with the changing conditions in working life and information communication technologies, there are differences in working values of the employees of each generation, in particular, it can be said that young generations differ in terms of protecting the values of older generations. In recent years, there is a widespread tendency to handle the transformations in the study values with the value conversion model of Inglehart. As a result external /materialist values such as “wages and occupational safety” have lost their importance in their work values; self-expression and autonomy, such as “internal / post-materialist” values gain importance and it is claimed that this transformation evolved from the elderly to the youth. In this study, as alleged by the Inglehart, value the work of young and older generations in Turkey has tried to determine whether a conversion. With these values, an empirical study was carried out on the academic staff of Mugla Sitki Kocman University based on the value transformation model of Inglehart. Through a questionnaire were reached total of 352 academic staff members. Based on Inglehart’s claim, according to the results of this research; significant differences couldn’t find between the younger and older generations values in Turkey. It has been concluded that individuals have postmaterialist views as their age progresses and they give more importance to internal study values.