Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society / / Ronald Inglehart.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Inglehart, Ronald,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures And Tables -- Preface -- Culture Shift In Advanced Industrial Society -- Introduction: The Impact Of Economic And Sociopolitical Change On Culture And The Impact Of Culture On Economics, Society, And Politics In Advanced Industrial Society -- Chapter 1. Culture, Stable Democracy, And Economic Development -- Chapter 2. The Rise Of Postmaterialist Values -- Chapter 3. Stability And Change In Mass Belief Systems -- Chapter 4. Structure In Mass Value Systems: The Materialist/Postmaterialist Dimension -- Chapter 5. Values, Social Class, And Economic Achievement -- Chapter 6. Changing Religious Orientations, Gender Roles, And Sexual Norms -- Chapter 7. Subjective Well-Being And Value Change: Aspirations Adapt To Situations -- Chapter 8. The Diminishing Marginal Utility Of Economic Determinism: The Decline Of Marxism -- Chapter 9. The Impact Of Values On Ideology And Political Behavior -- Chapter 10. From Elite-Directed To Elite-Directing Politics: The Role Of Cognitive Mobilization, Changing Gender Roles, And Changing Values -- Chapter 11. New Social Movements: Values, Ideology, And Cognitive Mobilization -- Chapter 12. Cultural Change And The Atlantic Alliance -- Chapter 13. The Role Of Culture In Social Change: Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Index