{"title":"Value change in the Western world: the rise of materialism, post-materialism or both?","authors":"Tarmo Strenze","doi":"10.1080/03906701.2021.1996761","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Numerous studies have investigated the changing values in the Western countries. Some studies have found people’s values to be changing towards materialism, others have found that post-materialism is on the rise. The present study demonstrates that different types of values have been changing in different directions in Western Europe and the USA since the 1970s. Political values have become more post-materialistic and work values have become more materialistic. The paper then discusses the possible reasons for such conflicting value trends and makes some predictions about the future direction of these trends.","PeriodicalId":46079,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Sociology-Revue Internationale de Sociologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Review of Sociology-Revue Internationale de Sociologie","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2021.1996761","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"SOCIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT Numerous studies have investigated the changing values in the Western countries. Some studies have found people’s values to be changing towards materialism, others have found that post-materialism is on the rise. The present study demonstrates that different types of values have been changing in different directions in Western Europe and the USA since the 1970s. Political values have become more post-materialistic and work values have become more materialistic. The paper then discusses the possible reasons for such conflicting value trends and makes some predictions about the future direction of these trends.
期刊介绍：
International Review of Sociology is the oldest journal in the field of sociology, founded in 1893 by Ren Worms. Now the property of Rome University, its direction has been entrusted to the Faculty of Statistics. This choice is a deliberate one and falls into line with the traditional orientation of the journal as well as of the Institut International de Sociologie. The latter was the world"s first international academic organisation of sociology which started as an association of contributors to International Review of Sociology. Entrusting the journal to the Faculty of Statistics reinforces the view that sociology is not conceived apart from economics, history, demography, anthropology and social psychology.
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