Author: Ronald Inglehart
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: postmodernization, modernization
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 1997-05-05
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 069101180X
ISBN-13: 9780691011806

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 politi