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

Publikation: Bücher und AnthologienBuch

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

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ErscheinungsortCambridge
VerlagCambridge University Press
Anzahl der Seiten333
ISBN (Print)978-0-521-60971-5, 0521609712
ISBN (elektronisch)9780511790881
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PublikationsstatusErschienen - 01.01.2005
Extern publiziertJa

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Publisher Copyright:
© Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel 2005.

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