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No Values—New Values? Youth and Postmaterialism 1
Author(s) -
Reimer Bo
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
scandinavian political studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.65
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9477
pISSN - 0080-6757
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9477.1988.tb00376.x
Subject(s) - conceptualization , materialism , value (mathematics) , relevance (law) , positive economics , sociology , epistemology , empirical research , social psychology , political science , psychology , economics , law , philosophy , mathematics , statistics , linguistics
This article deals with the postmatenalist hypothesis, originally formulated by Ronald Inglehart The hypothesis, stating that new generations in Western societies are moving more and more towards postmatenalist value orientations, is questioned on the grounds that the materialisl / postmaterialist dichotomy may he too rigid to capture the complexity of people's value orientations, and that the value conceptualization may hold a rather limited relevance for young people in present‐day Western societies. A reconstruction of the materialist / postmaterialist value conceptualization is earned out and empirical results from two Swedish national studies, supporting the author's questioning of the original hypothesis, are presented.