Ronald F. Inglehart Cultural Evolution (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Cultural EvolutionCondition: NewEAN: 9781108489317ISBN: 9781108489317Publisher: Cambridge University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/22/2018Description: Cultural Evolution argues that people's values and behavior are shaped by the degree to which survival is secure; it was precarious for most of history, which encouraged heavy emphasis on group solidarity, rejection of outsiders, and obedience to strong leaders. For under extreme scarcity, xenophobia is realistic: if there is just enough land to support one tribe and another tribe tries to claim it, survival may literally be a choice between Us and Them. Conversely, high levels of existential security encourage openness to change, diversity, and new ideas. The unprecedented prosperity and security of the postwar era brought cultural change, the environmentalist movement, and the spread of democracy. But in recent decades, diminishing job security and rising inequality have led to an authoritarian reaction. Evidence from more than 100 countries demonstrates that people's motivations and behavior reflect the extent to which they take survival for granted - and that modernization changes them in roughly predictable ways. This book explains the rise of environmentalist parties, gender equality, and same-sex marriage through a new, empirically-tested version of modernization theory.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 157mmItem Width: 21mmItem Weight: 570gAuthor: Ronald F. InglehartGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Law & Politics, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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