Cohort Differences in Tolerance of Homosexuality: Attitudinal Change in Canada and the United States, 1981-2000

Andersen, Robert; Fetner, Tina

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“…For instance, the entry of new generations who have grown up being exposed to environmental education and post-materialistic values 28 can influence environmental attitudes and environmental behaviour at the societal level. The concept of demographic metabolism has already been applied to modelling and forecasting the changing prevalence of attitudes towards gender roles 29,30 , homosexuality 31 and European identity 32,33 where younger and older birth cohorts differ mainly because younger generations were socialized in different social environments.…”

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Forecasting societies' adaptive capacities through a demographic metabolism model

Lutz

Muttarak

2017

Nature Clim Change

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In seeking to understand how future societies will be affected by climate change we cannot simply assume they will be identical to those of today, because climate and societies are both dynamic. Here we propose that the concept of demographic metabolism and the associated methods of multidimensional population projections provide an effective analytical toolbox to forecast important aspects of societal change that affect adaptive capacity. We present an example of how the changing educational composition of future populations can influence societies' adaptive capacity. Multi-dimensional population projections form the human core of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways scenarios, and knowledge and analytical tools from demography have great value in assessing the likely implications of climate change on future human well-being. 3Assessing the likely impacts of climate change on future human well-being requires a combination of two kinds of forecasts: how the climate of the future will be different from that of today; and how humans and there societies in the future will differ in terms of numbers, regional distributions, age structures and, most importantly, their capacities to successfully adapt to changing climatic conditions. This includes capacities at multiple levels from individual, to household, community and national level as well as the associated qualities of institutions and levels of economic development. Much work has been carried out in terms of modelling the future climatic conditions 1-3 , but very little has been done for modelling the future socioeconomic conditions. Successful adaptation is also dependent on the qualities of institutions and levels of economic development. In this Perspective, we discuss recent progress in the latter field, especially in the demographic metabolism model and illustrate the potential of multi-dimensional demographic methods for forecasting societies' adaptive capacities to climate change.The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report appropriately summarizes what was the state of the art on this issue: "Most scenario-based assessments superimpose biophysical 'futures' onto present-day socioeconomic conditions." 4 . While this

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Section: Population Dynamics and Demographic Metabolismmentioning

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Forecasting societies' adaptive capacities through a demographic metabolism model

Lutz

Muttarak

2017

Nature Clim Change

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“…For example, younger generations who get environmental education and hold more postmaterialistic values than the older ones (33) can be expected to gradually change the overall environmental attitudes of societies as they move up the age pyramid. The model has already been applied numerically to forecasting the changing prevalence of attitudes toward gender roles (34,35), homosexuality (36), and European identity (37), where younger and older birth cohorts differ mainly because younger generations were socialized in different social environments. Based on this model, it has recently been shown that the fact that young people across Europe express to a greater extent a European identity on top of their national ones has been the reason for the expanding prevalence of European identity and will likely continue in the future, irrespective of current political turmoil in the European Union (38).…”

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Global Sustainable Development priorities 500 y after Luther: Sola schola et sanitate

Lutz

2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Martin Luther succinctly summarized his theology in sola statements, such as sola scriptura, viewing the Bible (scriptura) as the only valid source of information about God rather than what he viewed as the extraneous, corrupting church doctrine of the time. As a secular side effect of this focus on individual reading skills, the Protestant territories were the first to acquire high literacy rates, which subsequently fostered health, economic growth, and good governance. Here I argue that a similar priority focus on empowerment of all segments of all populations through education and health (sola schola et sanitate) is needed today for sustainable development. According to decades of research, education and health are essential prerequisites for ending poverty and hunger, for improving institutions and participation in society, for voluntary fertility declines and ending world population growth, for changing behavior and adoption of new and clean technologies, and for enhancing adaptive capacity to already unavoidable climate change. This approach avoids paternalistic imposition of development policies by focusing external aid on enabling people to help themselves, their families, and communities. Prioritizing education and health also helps move more industrialized, aging societies from a focus on material consumption to one on quality of life. Sola schola et sanitate suggests that well-being will increasingly be based on health, continued mental stimulation, and consumption of cultural products, rather than fossil fuels and materials. Thus, cognition-or brain power-can be viewed as the zero-emissions energy for sustainable development.Sustainable Development Goals | reformation | education | health | world population

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“…Adamczyk & Pitt, 2009;Andersen & Fetner, 2008;Overby & Barth, 2002) show that older people are in general more homonegative than their younger counterparts, there are some (e.g. Besen & Zicklin, 2007;Detenber et al, 2007) that do not find a significant effect of age.…”

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“…Andersen & Fetner, 2008). Even though these studies provide us with interesting insights, they are insufficient to fully grasp what makes some people more and others less homonegative.…”

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Cultural Capital and Attitudes Toward Homosexuals: Exploring the Relation Between Lifestyles and Homonegativity

Slootmaeckers

Lievens

2014

Journal of Homosexuality

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Cohort Differences in Tolerance of Homosexuality: Attitudinal Change in Canada and the United States, 1981-2000

Cited by 304 publications

References 72 publications

Forecasting societies' adaptive capacities through a demographic metabolism model

Forecasting societies' adaptive capacities through a demographic metabolism model

Global Sustainable Development priorities 500 y after Luther: Sola schola et sanitate

Cultural Capital and Attitudes Toward Homosexuals: Exploring the Relation Between Lifestyles and Homonegativity

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