Inglehart Ronald

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• Culture shift in advanced industrial society

  12 April 2005
  This is an important work as it condenses extensive comparative survey findings into a theoretical framework. Inglehart’s approach is often rejected in principle because it is underlain by needs theory, i.e. a hierarchised conception of covering needs with societies focused on the very basic ones developing different cultures and values than societies which focus on postmaterialist frameworks of organisation and competition.