Ronald Inglehart
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in The United States
September 05, 1934
Died
May 08, 2021
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“The vertical dimension reflects the transition from agrarian societies to industrial societies, which brings secularization, bureaucratization, urbanization, and rationalization. These changes are linked with a polarization between traditional and secular-rational values.”
― Religion's Sudden Decline: What's Causing it, and What Comes Next?
― Religion's Sudden Decline: What's Causing it, and What Comes Next?
“Most societies no longer require high fertility rates. Infant mortality has fallen to a tiny fraction of its 1950 level. Effective birth control technology, labor-saving devices, improved child care facilities, and low infant mortality make it possible for women to have children and full-time careers. Traditional pro-fertility norms are giving way to individual-choice norms that allow people a broader range of choice in how to live their lives. Pro-fertility norms have high costs. Forcing women to stay in the home and gays and lesbians to stay in the closet requires severe repression. Once high human fertility rates are no longer needed, there are strong incentives to move away from pro-fertility norms—which usually means moving away from religion. As this book demonstrates, norms concerning gender equality, divorce, abortion, and homosexuality are changing rapidly. Young people in high-income societies are increasingly aware of the tension between religion and individual-choice norms, motivating them to reject religion. Beginning in 2010, secularization has accelerated sharply.”
― Religion's Sudden Decline: What's Causing it, and What Comes Next?
― Religion's Sudden Decline: What's Causing it, and What Comes Next?
“The collapse of Marxist belief systems led to a massive decline of subjective well-being among the people of the former Soviet Empire, a decline that lasted for decades, leaving an ideological vacuum to be filled by rising religiosity and nationalism.”
― Religion's Sudden Decline: What's Causing it, and What Comes Next?
― Religion's Sudden Decline: What's Causing it, and What Comes Next?
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