Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others--and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable. Once a society has embarked on industrialization, for example, a whole syndrome of related changes, from mass mobilization to diminishing differences in gender roles, is likely to appear. These changes in worldviews seem to reflect changes in the economic and political environment, but they take place with a generational time lag and have considerable autonomy and momentum of their own. But industrialization is not the end of history. Advanced industrial society leads to a basic shift in values, de-emphasizing the instrumental rationality that characterized industrial society. Postmodern values then bring new societal changes, including democratic political institutions and the decline of state socialist regimes. To demonstrate the powerful links between belief systems and political and socioeconomic variables, this book draws on a unique database, the World Values Surveys. This database covers a broader range than ever before available for looking at the impact of mass publics on political and social life. It provides information from societies representing 70 percent of the world's population--from societies with per capita incomes as low as

Social change --- Progress --- Political development --- Economic development --- Progrès social --- Développement politique --- Développement économique --- Changement social --- Cross-cultural studies --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Etudes transculturelles --- -Political development --- -Economic development --- -Social change --- -316.323.9 --- -303.44 --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Development, Political --- Political science --- Social progress --- Civilization --- Regression (Civilization) --- Social stability --- Postmoderne maatschappij. Sociologie van het postmodernisme --- 316.323.9 Postmoderne maatschappij. Sociologie van het postmodernisme --- Progrès social --- Développement politique --- Développement économique --- 303.44 --- 316.323.9 --- Sociale verandering --- Wirtschaftsentwicklung. --- Modernisierung. --- Postmoderne. --- Wandel. --- Vergleich. --- Industriegesellschaft. --- Wertwandel. --- Sozialer Wandel. --- Geschichte. --- Politischer Wandel. --- Kulturvergleich. --- Fortschritt. --- Argentina. --- Bean, Clive. --- Buerklin, Wilhelm. --- Catholic societies. --- China. --- France. --- Hungary. --- Materialist values. --- Postmaterialist values. --- Republikaner Party. --- Soviet Union. --- abortion. --- achievement motivation. --- class conflict. --- cognitive mobilization. --- democracy. --- diminishing marginal utility. --- divorce. --- economic growth. --- environmental protection. --- government spending. --- immigration. --- institutional determinism. --- investment. --- legitimacy. --- life satisfaction. --- mass participation. --- national pride. --- organizational memberships. --- political interest. --- Progress - Cross-cultural studies. --- Political development - Cross-cultural studies. --- Economic development - Cross-cultural studies. --- Social change - Cross-cultural studies. --- Fortschrittsgedanke --- Innovation --- Interkultureller Vergleich --- Cross-cultural Analysis --- Vergleich --- Systemtransformation --- Systemwandel --- Systemwechsel --- Politische Entwicklung --- Wandel --- Modernité --- Postmodernisme --- Etudes comparatives