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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.
But industrialization is not the end of history. Advanced industrial society embraces yet another set of values, de-emphasizing the instrumental rationality that characterized industrial society. Postmodern values then bring new societal changes, including democratic politic 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 the World Values Surveys, a unique database that looks 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 income as low as $300 per year to those with per capita incomes one hundred times greater and from long-established democracies with market economics to authoritarian states.
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Political development, Economic development, Social change, Cross-cultural studies, Progress, Cultuurverandering, Études comparatives, Changement social, Sociale waarden, Politieke verandering, Études transculturelles, Wirtschaftsentwicklung, Valeurs sociales, Politischer Wandel, Développement économique, Civilisation, Internationaler Vergleich, Sozialer Wandel, Progrès, Développement politique, Sociaal-economische verandering, Philosophy - general & miscellaneous, General & miscellaneous - politics & governmentEdition | Availability |
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Modernization and postmodernization: cultural, economic, and political change in 43 societies
1997, Princeton University Press
in English
0691011818 9780691011813
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-444) and index.
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