Social Prerequisites to Economic Growth in Latin America and Southeast Asia

Dimensions and Dynamics of National Culture: Synthesizing Hofstede With Inglehart

“…The writings in sociology and political science on cultural change are dominated by modernization theory, predicting that continued economic development goes together with predictable changes in norms, values, and beliefs (Bell, 1973;Flanagan, 1987;Inglehart, 1971Inglehart, , 1990Inglehart, , 1997Inkeles, 1960;Inkeles & Smith, 1974;McClelland, 1961;Nash, 1964;Welzel, 2013). The shift from industrial to postindustrial society brings about fundamental changes in people's daily experiences, which are reflected in changing worldviews (Inglehart & Baker, 2000).…”

Are Scores on Hofstede's Dimensions of National Culture Stable over Time? A Cohort Analysis

“…Doubts about cultural stability are fuelled by a large literature on societal value change during processes of modernization and globalization. Building on Marx's view of social consciousness as a reflection of a society's economic structures (Marx, ), modernization theorists have long argued that continued economic development goes together with predictable changes in norms, values, and beliefs (Bell, ; Inglehart, , ; McClelland, ; Nash, ). Most notably, the shift from industrial to post‐industrial society brings about fundamental changes in people's daily experiences, which are reflected in changing worldviews (Inglehart and Baker, ).…”

Theory and Methodology of World Development

“…. 143 When Nash says that this mode of analysis leads to smaller-scale hypotheses, he is quite right, as we will see later. However, it should be noted here that the first two modes were seen to be inadequate precisely because the scale of their theory and hypotheses is already too small to treat adequately the dimension and structure of the social system that gives rise to both development and underdevelopment.…”

“…In addition to Manning Nash, who is probably best classified in this category-although he rejects diffusionism in its crudest "pitchforking" form as he calls it-theorists concerned with the developed countries' diffusion of institutions and values, and the underdeveloped recipients' resistance to them, have been well represented in the pages of EDCC. 102 Technically, diffusionist theory might deal with the diffusion of any kind of institutions or values. In practice, however, the diffusionist school has concentrated its attention on the diffusion of old-fashioned or newfangled liberalism (though they rarely call it this)-which is, indeed, most of what has been diffused from the metropolitan to the now underdeveloped countries during the last century.…”

“…We could grant them that the "lead economies are the sparkplugs of the world economy" (100, emphasis in original) and that, as McNeill (1983) already claimed, the lead economy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries was in China. But in that case, when begins "the history of European expansion as the core of the world economy" (102)? In their schema, the shift occurs already in the fifth Kondratieff beginning in 1190, which they see as centered on the Champagne fairs, the sixth on Black Sea trade, the seventh on Venice after 1300, from 1350 on the pepper trade, from 1430 on Guinea gold, from 1494 on Indian spices, 1540 on the Baltic and Atlantic trade, and 1580 on Asian trade.…”