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In Cultural Evolution, People’s Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the World, Ronald Inglehart undertakes a comprehensive scholarly examination of his proposition that “high levels of economic and physical security led to pervasive intergenerational cultural changes that reshaped people’s values and worldviews, bringing a shift from materialist to post-materialist values, which was part of an even broader shift from survival to self-expression values”. This book builds on the author’s previous work concerning modernization as a multifaceted process of social change pivoting on value change, that is transformational in its impact and progressive in its effects. Inglehart’s work builds on, but substantially revises, classical modernization theory as developed by Marx, Weber, Durkheim and many others, updating it to examine post-modern society and beyond, inquiring into the trajectory of the knowledge society and the Artificial Intelligence era. In this book, Inglehart applies the principles of evolutionary theory to develop a new theoretical framework for modernization theory. Evolutionary theory and functionalism shaped modernization theory as early as in the 60s, emphasizing the ability to adapt to gradual, continuous change as the normal condition of stability, by attributing causal priority to immanent sources of changes, and by analyzing social change as a directional process. As the author suggests, “Evidence from around the world indicates that socioeconomic development tends to propel various societies in a roughly

Ronald Inglehart (2018). Cultural Evolution, People's Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the World. Cambridge University Press