THE MEANING OF MEANING IN A POST-MEANING AGE

This article explores the question, to what extent, if any, do the per sonal values of contemporary undergraduate students reflect a shift fr om traditional and modern paradigms to a post-modern worldview? Analys ing questionnaire responses of over 2500 students from around the worl d, the authors conclude that the students' values are not so much shif ted as shifting. However, a pronounced post-modern trend may be noted in the perception of a radical equality of ideas. The authors also pro pose that clusters of traditional, modern, and post-modern values may be portrayed as a landscape, in which the principle of non-contradicti on need not apply.