Introducing Beyond Perestroika
Axiology and the New Russian Entrepreneurs
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https://doi.org/10.67945/jfa.v3i.86Keywords:
cultural anthropology, Hartman Value Profile, Russia, ethnography, cross-cultural researchAbstract
This paper introduces formal axiology to the world of cultural anthropology by marrying interpretive approaches with those that are scientific and empirical. Robert S. Hartman’s The Structure of Value laid the foundations for formal axiology, a value science that uses a logical approach to understand what is meant by “good.” Formal axiology was adopted and developed by theorists and practitioners to access the values that motivate people. Leon Pomeroy’s The New Science of Axiological Psychology included cross-cultural HVP research. Helping Pomeroy collect data, in the early 1990s I traveled to Russia and Latvia to introduce formal axiology to the former Soviet Union. I researched culture change among Russians and Latvians. My book uses formal axiology to access their values and to evaluate my own ethnographic experience. This paper introduces my Russian fieldwork and formal axiology, demonstrates my use of the HVP in the field, and links it to the three value dimensions given by formal axiology.References
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