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Cultural evolution : people's motivations are changing, and reshaping the world / Ronald F. Inglehart

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: American political thought | American political thoughtPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, [2018]Description: xvii, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781108489317 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4 23
LOC classification:
  • HM 831 I51c 2018
Contents:
Introduction : overview of this book -- Evolutionary modernization and cultural change -- The rise of postmaterialist values in the West and the world -- Global cultural patterns -- The end of secularization? -- Cultural change, slow and fast : the distinctive trajectory of norms governing gender equality and sexual orientation -- The feminization of society and declining willingness to fight for one's country : the individual-level component of the long peace -- Development and democracy -- The changing roots of happiness -- The silent revolution in reverse : the rise of Trump and the authoritarian populist parties -- The coming of artificial intelligence society.
Summary: Written for a non-specialist audience, Cultural Evolution presents and tests a theory that helps explain the causes of the changes in people's motivations that have led to the rise of
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Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HM 831 I51c 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000132644

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : overview of this book -- Evolutionary modernization and cultural change -- The rise of postmaterialist values in the West and the world -- Global cultural patterns -- The end of secularization? -- Cultural change, slow and fast : the distinctive trajectory of norms governing gender equality and sexual orientation -- The feminization of society and declining willingness to fight for one's country : the individual-level component of the long peace -- Development and democracy -- The changing roots of happiness -- The silent revolution in reverse : the rise of Trump and the authoritarian populist parties -- The coming of artificial intelligence society.

Written for a non-specialist audience, Cultural Evolution presents and tests a theory that helps explain the causes of the changes in people's motivations that have led to the rise of

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