Ronald Inglehart - Human Beliefs and Values

Description

This book is a valuable tool for understanding how social, political, economic, and cultural attitudes differ from one society to another, and how they are changing, with economic and technological development. It gives detailed information about people's political, religious, economic, and social values, analyzed by age, education, income and gender, and showing changes over time. ENGLISH: The World Values Survey and European Values Study surveys 85 percent of the world's population presenting a full range of variation, from societies with per capita income below $300.00, to those with more than $35,000.00 per year; from long-established democracies to authoritarian states; from societies with established market economies to ex-communist societies; from societies representing every major religious and cultural tradition. They demonstrate the human goals and motivations vary immensely, from one society to another-and that they are changing in coherent ways. It is supplemented containing the complete data for all 81 countries, together with the questionnaires used in each country and details concerning sampling and fieldwork. The data is from the 1999-2000 World Values Survey and European Values Study.