Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society

Economic, technological, and sociopolitical changes have been transforming the cultures of advanced industrial societies in profoundly important ways during the past few decades. This ambitious work examines changes in religious beliefs, in motives for work, in the issues that give rise to political conflict, in the importance people attach to having children and families, and in attitudes toward divorce, abortion, and homosexuality. Ronald Inglehart's earlier book, The Silent Revolution (Princeton, 1977), broke new ground by discovering a major intergenerational shift in the values of the populations of advanced industrial societies. This new volume demonstrates that this value shift is part of a much broader process of cultural change that is gradually transforming political, economic, and social life in these societies. Inglehart uses a massive body of time-series survey data from twenty-six nations, gathered from 1970 through 1988, to analyze the cultural changes that are occurring as younger generations gradually replace older ones in the adult population. These changes have far-reaching political implications, and they seem to be transforming the economic growth rates of societies and the kind of economic development that is pursued.

Politics & Social Sciences

Ronald Inglehart

Sociology

Princeton University Press

Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism

Pippa Norris

Cambridge University Press

The Silent Revolution: Changing Values and Political Styles Among Western Publics (Princeton Legacy Library)

This book gives insight into how people´s basic values and attitudes differ across almost 100 countries containing most of the world´s populationand how these orientations have been changing during the last three decades, from 1981-2007. Using data from the World Values Survey and European Values Study Surveys, it examines human values and goals concerning politics, economics, religion, sexual behavior, gender roles, family values, communal identities, civic engagement, and ethical concerns, and such issues as environmental protection, scientific progress and technological development, and human happiness. This sourcebook enables the reader to compare the responses to hundreds of questions across societies through-out the world covering the full spectrum of economic, political and cultural variation, including a variety of religious and cultural traditions, from Christian to Islamic to Confucian to Hindu. The data show significant differences between societies whose culture emphasizes social conformity and group-obligations, to societies where the main emphasis is on human emancipation and self-expression.

Changing human beliefs and values, 1981-2007. A Cross-Cultural Sourcebook Based on the World Values Surveys and European Values Studies

History

Miguel Basanez

Europe

Siglo XXI

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