Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy - The Human Development Sequence (Paperback)

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. The authors present a model of social change that predicts how the value systems play a crucial role in the emergence and flourishing of democratic institutions - and that modernisation brings coherent cultural changes that are conducive to democratisation.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	Ronald Inglehart • Christian Welzel
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	344
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-60971-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General
LSN:	0-521-60971-2
Barcode:	9780521609715

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