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The previous chapter compared the average responses of citizens of Macedonia to value-related questions in the European Values Surveys (EVS) with comparable average responses of people in other European countries. Since ethnic Macedonians1 are the clear majority within Macedonia, the positions of Macedonia in the constellations of countries in the figures of the previous chapter mostly reflect their values, while the positions of other ethnic groups in Macedonia may be quite different. In this chapter, we concentrate on differences in values within Macedonia related to the attitudes, cultural norms, and religiosity of the Macedonian and Albanian populations. In addition to showing overall Macedonian—Albanian differences, we go on to explore Macedonian—Albanian differences in changes across age groups or birth cohorts, differences across educational groups, and urban versus rural differences. Limitations in the available data prevent us from emphasizing exactly the same variables as those examined in Chapter 3. Instead, following a number of arguments in Sabrina Ramet’s chapter on civic virtues and liberal values, we stress values related to ethnic exclusion, gender-role equality, consensus on basic mores concerning sexual behavior, and religiosity.
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See Duško Sekulič, Garth Massey, and Randy Hodson, “Ethnic Intolerance and Ethnic Conflict in the Dissolution of Yugoslavia,” in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 29, Issue 5 (September 2006), pp. 797–827.
Also Albert Simkus, “Nationalities States and Values,” in Kristen Ringdal and Albert Simkus (eds), The Aftermath of War: Experiences and Social Attitudes in the Western Balkans (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012, 103–30);
and Albert Simkus, “Divisions within Bosnia and Herzegovina on Core Values: Effects of Nationality, Gender, Age, Education, and Size of Place of Residence”, in Ola Listhaug and Sabrina Ramet (eds), Bosnia-Herzegovina since Dayton: Civic and Uncivic Values (Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2012— in production).
Analyses of cross-national differences and within Western Balkan differences in attitudes toward “homo-negativity” specifically, can be found in Marija Brajdié Vukovié and Aleksandar Stulhofer, “‘The Whole Universe Is Homosexual’: Correlates of Homonegativity in Seven South East European Countries,” in Ringdal, XOA and Simkus, XOA (eds), The Aftermath of War (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012, 217–34).
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Jashari, H., Simkus, A. (2013). Differences in Values within Macedonia: Macedonian—Albanian Comparisons. In: Ramet, S.P., Listhaug, O., Simkus, A. (eds) Civic and Uncivic Values in Macedonia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137302823_4
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