Modernization and Postmodernization (eBook)

Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies

Ronald Inglehart (Autor)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21442-9 (ISBN)

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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. 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 $300 per year to those with per capita incomes one hundred times greater and from long-established democracies with market economies to authoritarian states.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.7.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 95 line illus. 30 tables
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: Abortion • Achievement motivation • activism • Argentina • authoritarianism • Bean, Clive • birth cohort • Buerklin, Wilhelm • Calculation • capita • Capitalism • Catholic societies • China • Church attendance • class conflict • cognitive mobilization • communism • Criticism • cross-cultural • cultural determinism • Democracy • Democratization • developed country • Developing Country • diminishing marginal utility • Divorce • East Asia • Eastern Europe • economic determinism • Economic Development • Economic Growth • Economic indicator • Economics • Economic Security • economy • Employment • environmental protection • ethnic group • Factor Analysis • Finding • France • Gender Role • Good and evil • Government • government spending • Hungary • Ideology • Immigration • income • Income Equality • industrialisation • Industrial society • Institution • institutional determinism • Intellectual • Investment • Latin America • Legitimacy • liberal democracy • Life Expectancy • Life Satisfaction • Lithuania • marginal utility • Market Economy • Marxism • mass participation • Materialist values • Measures of national income and output • Modernity • Modernization Theory • Nationality • national pride • Norm (social) • North America • organizational memberships • percentage • Planned economy • Political culture • Political Interest • political machine • Political Party • Politician • Politics • post-industrial society • post-materialism • Postmaterialist values • Postmodernism • Postmodernity • Prediction • quality of life • Recession • Regime • Republikaner Party • Respondent • Scarcity • Secularization • Self-ownership • Sexual norm • Social Class • socialist state • Social Science • Society • Soviet Union • standard of living • State Ownership • Subjective Well-Being • Technology • The Other Hand • third world • Time Series • Trade Union • Unemployment • Value (ethics) • Voting • Wealth • welfare • Welfare State • Western Europe • Western World • West Germany • World Bank • World Development Report • World Values Survey • World War II • Xenophobia • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21442-5 / 0691214425
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21442-9 / 9780691214429