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- Title
Valores postmaterialistas y aprendizaje político adulto. El cambio de valores intracohorte en Europa occidental.
- Authors
Tormos, Raül
- Abstract
Research on value change and stability tends to underline the importance of generational effects, Inglehart's theory of post-materialism being an example of this. According to his theory, formative experiences shape the values of each age-cohort, and social change takes place progressively due to the force of generational replacement. This article analyzes survey data covering a wider period of observations than the one Inglehart used to draw his conclusions. By applying time series techniques, I find significant changes within each generation over time. I show how an important adult learning process in the field of post-materialist values has taken place, which has been neglected by the empirical literature. Contrary to Inglehart's point of view, I conclude that period effects are not just minor short-term infl uences affecting the «normal» change due to generational replacement, but a systematic intracohort trend linked to the European economic prosperity of recent decades.
- Subjects
WESTERN Europe; MATERIALISM -- Social aspects; POLITICAL attitudes; INGLEHART, Ronald, 1934-; ADULTS; AGE groups; GENERATION gap -- Social aspects; VALUES (Ethics); SOCIALIZATION research; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 2012, Issue 140, p89
- ISSN
0210-5233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5477/cis/reis.140.89