Valores morais e de autoexpressão: pós-materialismo em/na crise?

Abstract

This article aims to verify the impact of the change in material existence conditions (health and economic) caused by the covid-19 pandemic on the stability of materialistic and post-materialistic values in Brazil. The hypothesis, built from the literature and tested with data from two waves of the “Values in Crisis” project, is that such values should be stable in the lives of individuals and would not change in the short run. However, the results indicate the opposite: an increase in post-materialistic values among Brazilians compared to materialistic ones. Thus, the article deals with the variation of different types of values and socio-political preferences in the face of the crisis and proposes explanations for the observed short-term changes, as well as their potential consequences in the medium and long term.