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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. 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.
ISBN-13

9780521846950

ISBN-10

0521846951

Weight

1.35 Pounds

Dimensions

6.25 x 1.00 x 9.25 In

List Price

$140.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

344 pages

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published On

2005-08-08


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