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Modernization, cultural change, and democracy: the human development sequence

By Ronald Inglehart , Christian Welzel

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0521846951, 9780521846950, 0521609712, 9780521609715, 0511337310, 9780511337314, 9780511790881
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511790881.017
Google Books ID
O4APtKh7JqQC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4821828 bytes)
Pages
344\345
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2013-05-30 20:11:51

Description

This book demonstrates that people's basic values and beliefs are changing, in ways that affect their political, sexual, economic, and religious behavior. These changes are roughly predictable because they can be interpreted on the basis of a revised version of modernization theory presented here. Drawing on a massive body of evidence from societies containing 85% of the world's population, the authors demonstrate that modernization is a process of human development, in which economic development triggers cultural changes that make individual autonomy, gender equality, and democracy increasingly likely.

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