TY  - BOOK
AU  - Inglehart,Ronald
AU  - Welzel,Christian
TI  - Modernization, cultural change, and democracy: the human development sequence 
SN  - 0521846951
AV  - 303.4 .I54 2005
U1  - 303.4 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Social change
KW  - Social values
KW  - Democratization
KW  - Democracy
N2  - "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: to a large extent, they can be explained by the revised version of modernization theory presented here. Drawing on a massive body of evidence from societies containing 85 percent of the world's population, the authors demonstrate that modernization 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 value systems are likely to evolve in coming decades. They demonstrate that mass values play a crucial role in the emergence and flourishing of democratic institutions."--Jacket
ER  -