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Culture shift in advanced industrial society
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Culture ShiftBusiness CultureEconomic DevelopmentEducationSocial ChangeEconomic HistoryCultural DynamicCultural DiversityCultural TraditionsLanguage StudiesSocio-economic ChangeCultural ChangesIndustrial RevolutionCultureCultural ProcessHistorical TransitionCulture ChangeEconomic ChangeSocial AnthropologyCultural AnthropologyModernity
Advanced industrial societies have experienced profound cultural shifts driven by economic, technological, and sociopolitical changes, including a major intergenerational value shift identified by Inglehart. The study investigates how religious beliefs, work motives, political conflict issues, family importance, and attitudes toward divorce, abortion, and homosexuality are evolving. The authors analyze time‑series survey data from 26 nations (1970‑1988) to examine cultural changes as younger generations replace older ones. The value shift is part of a broader cultural change that is gradually transforming political, economic, and social life, with far‑reaching political implications and effects on economic growth rates and development paths.
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.