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Value Survey.” The URL for the World Value Survey is attached below:
http://wvs.isr.umich.edu/index.html
Inglehart’s thesis is this: since World War II, Western publics have turned from a materialist
concern with economic security—jobs, growth, consumer choice, comfort—to what he
terms a “post-materialist” emphasis on more intangible values: quality of life, social welfare,
community, environment, spiritual development, etc. His work is built on built on sociologist
Abraham Maslow’s famous “hierarchy of needs,” which argued that once people satisfy
their basic needs for food and shelter, they then move onto higher-order needs like
intellectual development, personal growth, etc. Inglehart takes Maslow’s hierarchy, and
maps it onto the interwar and baby boom generations.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
The interwar generation, born in the 1920s and 1930s, and deeply scarred by the privation
of the Great Depression and World War II, valued economic growth governed by values like
thrift, hard work, and sacrifice. Their children, the remarkably large and influential baby
boom generation born in the 1947-66 period, value belonging, self-expression, and quality
of life. Inglehart’s own schema illustrating some of the major differences in these value sets
is outlined below. The children of the baby boom, Generation Y, born between 1979 and
1994, arguably also share these same post-materialist values.
materialist values post-material英语论文网 【http://www.51lunwen.org】ist values
(interwar generation) (baby boom, generation Y)
A high level of economic growth Seeing that people have more say about
how things are done at their jobs and in
their communities
Making sure this country has strong Trying to make our cities and countryside
defense forces more beautiful
Maintaining order in the nation Giving people more say in important
government decisions
Fighting rising prices Protecting freedom of speech
A stable economy Progress toward a less impersonal and
more humane society
The fight against crime Progress toward a society in which ideas
count more than money
Ronald Inglehart’s index of materialist and postmaterialist values
Miljan and Cooper identify the post-materialist consensus exclusively with a left-liberal
ideological consensus. But it’s possible to define the “culture war” in the United States—the
ideological battle over values between the right and left—as the expression of a post-
materialist orientation shared by Christian conservatives and New Agers, the rural poor in
the “red states” and the urban liberal in the blue, Republican and Democrat alike. The baby
boom generation, and the Generation Y cohort that follows it, regardless of explicit
ideological orientation, are preoccupied with values, symbols, and cultural issues of all
kinds. The culture war, insofar as it foregrounds the importance of meaning, values, and
lifestyle, is itself a reflection of the fact that North
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