Secularization Accelerates in High-Income Countries

2020 ◽  
pp. 74-102
Author(s):  
Ronald F. Inglehart
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
High Income ◽  
Religious Change ◽  
Time Lags ◽  
Individual Choice ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Population Replacement ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Dramatic Shift

Although intergenerational population replacement involves long time lags, cultural change can reach a tipping point at which new norms become dominant. Social desirability effects then reverse polarity: instead of retarding cultural changes, they accelerate them. In the shift from pro-fertility norms to individual-choice norms, this point has been reached in a growing number of settings, starting with the younger and more secure strata of high-income societies, accelerating secularization. Analysis of religious change in countries from which time-series survey evidence was available from 1981 to 2007 found that the publics of 33 of the 49 countries had become more religious during this period. From 2007 to 2020, the dominant trend reversed itself, with 42 of the 49 countries showing declining religiosity. The most dramatic shift was found among the American public, which in 2007 had shown virtually no change since 1981, but from 2007 to 2020 showed the largest shift away from religion of any country for which we have data.

Examining the interrelationships among reward systems, organisational climate and cultural changes in the hospitality industry

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christos Kakarougkas ◽  
Theodoros Stavrinoudis
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Reward System ◽  
Senior Executives ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Organisational Climate ◽  
Individual Variables ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Method Of Extraction

This paper aims to explore the impact of a hotel’s reward system on strengthening: positiverelationships and communication among employees; the creation of a change-friendlyorganisational climate and cultural change barriers, within the context of a cultural changeprocess in a hotel. Quantitative data were collected from a proportionally stratified,representative sample of 207 Greek five-star hotels’ senior executives and analysed with theprincipal component method of extraction and Structural Equation Modelling. This led to thecreation and validation of three prototype second-order latent variable models, whichhighlight and depict the impact of individual variables and their importance for a rewardsystem creating an organisational climate for or against cultural change in hotels. Theoriginality of the paper lays on both theoretical and practical levels. On a theoretical level, thepaper’s findings manage to fill a knowledge gap through a novel modelling of a rewardsystem on a hotel’s organisational climate in times of cultural change. On a practical level, thepaper findings enable hotels’ executives to focus on specific variables of a reward system thatcan enhance and/or prevent a cultural change initiative.

Non-Gaussian probability distributions of solar wind fluctuations

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1127-1138 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Marsch ◽  
C. Y. Tu
Keyword(s):  
Solar Wind ◽  
Probability Distributions ◽  
Time Lag ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Time Lags ◽  
Mhd Turbulence ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Fluid Turbulence ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Non Gaussian

Abstract. The probability distributions of field differences ∆x(τ)=x(t+τ)-x(t), where the variable x(t) may denote any solar wind scalar field or vector field component at time t, have been calculated from time series of Helios data obtained in 1976 at heliocentric distances near 0.3 AU. It is found that for comparatively long time lag τ, ranging from a few hours to 1 day, the differences are normally distributed according to a Gaussian. For shorter time lags, of less than ten minutes, significant changes in shape are observed. The distributions are often spikier and narrower than the equivalent Gaussian distribution with the same standard deviation, and they are enhanced for large, reduced for intermediate and enhanced for very small values of ∆x. This result is in accordance with fluid observations and numerical simulations. Hence statistical properties are dominated at small scale τ by large fluctuation amplitudes that are sparsely distributed, which is direct evidence for spatial intermittency of the fluctuations. This is in agreement with results from earlier analyses of the structure functions of ∆x. The non-Gaussian features are differently developed for the various types of fluctuations. The relevance of these observations to the interpretation and understanding of the nature of solar wind magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is pointed out, and contact is made with existing theoretical concepts of intermittency in fluid turbulence.

Topography and Culture: The Case of the Changing Cage

1957 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cara Richards ◽  
Henry Dobyns
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Work Unit ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
The Relationship

This paper deals with a problem long debated by anthropologists—the relationship between environment and culture. We analyze effects of topography on cultural change in situations of contact between two social systems, one more powerful than the other and inclined to enforce its behaviors on the weaker. We do this by examining cultural changes in one work-unit within a large insurance company in the United States.

Narratives for the third millennium

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Ray ◽  
Julian Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
External Stimulus ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Third Millennium Bce

By the later part of the third millennium BCE, Britain had become connected to mainland Europe by the so-called ‘Beaker network’. This appears to have involved the circulation of people, materials, and cultural innovations over trans-continental distances. Most tellingly, it included direct evidence for cross-Channel contact and the movement of individual people into Britain who had lived much or most of their lives in continental Europe. However, the evidence for such contact during the previous few centuries is very much sparser. If, as it seems reasonable to infer, developed passage tombs were ultimately an Atlantic European phenomenon that was adopted in idiosyncratic ways in Ireland, Scotland, and finally Scandinavia during the course of the fourth millennium, routine interactions with the Continent are less easy to identify thereafter. In marked contrast with this, the period after 3000 BCE saw the emergence of a range of new interregional connections within Britain and Ireland. These have been less consistently recognized, as they conflict with the traditional narrative in which populations in central and south-west Asia engaged in periodic wholesale migration northward and westward. Such a narrative of external stimulus to change is less secure in this period because we now realize that the social and cultural changes that overtook Britain in the earlier third millennium originated predominantly in the northern and western parts of these islands. Some of the most significant innovations of the third millennium throughout Britain were ultimately generated in the Orkney archipelago and its immediate sphere of contact. While aspects of the unique developments that took place in the Orkneys can be attributed to connections with Ireland and the Western Isles, these contributed to the emergence of a distinctive social formation that was at once highly competitive and spectacularly creative. By the start of the third millennium, Orkney had become a crucible of social and cultural change, but developments in the islands arguably began to diverge from those on the mainland soon after the Neolithic began, perhaps during the thirty-seventh century BCE.

Food for the body and soul: Veganism, righteous male bodies, and culinary redemption in the Kingdom of Yah

Ethnography ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146613812091018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fran Markowitz ◽  
Nir Avieli
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Black Male ◽  
The Body ◽  
Vegan Diet ◽  
Religious Change ◽  
Social Justice Movements ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Dramatic Shift ◽  
Justice Movements

This article grapples with the unlikely combination of veganism, righteous black bodies, and servitude as expressed in the “divine holistic culture” of the African Hebrew Israelite Community (AHIC). Based on our ethnography of how the Community re-scripts strong, virile black male bodies from rough brutes to responsible and righteous patriarchs, we show how the Hebrew Israelites’ vegan diet undergirds their Biblically based culture and fuels their salvation project. We propose the term “culinary redemption” to encapsulate the dramatic shift made by the AHIC from a theology based on salvation in the afterlife to a restorative cosmology in the here and now, and suggest that the food and foodways of other subaltern groups also provide powerful material for initiating social justice movements and religious change.

Gender mainstreaming in Europe: legislation and cultural changes

2019 ◽  
pp. 31-46
Author(s):  
Vera Lomazzi ◽  
Isabella Crespi
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Substantive Equality ◽  
The Eu

The exploration of the development of the gender mainstreaming strategy and its effect on, European legislation concerning gender equality, from its beginnings to today is the aim of this chapter.The focus is on the role of the European Union in promoting substantive equality for men and women improving legislation in the European Union context and favouring a cultural change in the gender equality perspective. Gender mainstreaming is analysed as the main legislative and cultural shift done for promoting gender equality in all European policies. Gender mainstreaming legislation requires the adoption of a gender perspective by all the central actors in the policy process and, even considering its limits and blunders, and is still the most crucial transnational strategy currently in existence that promotes gender equality in all domains of social life. The legislation enquiries raised at the beginning of the gender mainstreaming implementation process in the EU around 1996 focused on the potential role of the EU in bridging the gap between formal and substantive equality, until nowadays and most recent guidelines, are the issues of the discussion in the chapter.

Labour Migration and its Relationship to Socio-Cultural Change in Mossi Society

Africa ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elliott P. Skinner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Outstanding Feature ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphLabour migration is an outstanding feature in most contemporary African societies. It not only touches on nearly all aspects of the lives of the peoples involved, but is often the cause as well as the result of important social and cultural changes. It therefore holds a special interest for students of such changes. Here they can observe the movements of vast numbers of people, and the concomitant problems which arise with the exposure of these people to new social, political, and economic conditions. Furthermore, working with data from migrants and their home and host communities, social scientists are able to test many theoretical assumptions which are held about the nature of socio-cultural change.

scholarly journals Morphology of water-based housing in Mekong delta, Vietnam

2018 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 04005
Author(s):  
Vu Thi Hong Hanh ◽  
Viet Duong
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Economic ◽  
Mekong Delta ◽  
Delta Region ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
History Of Development ◽  
Water Based ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of

A long time ago, houses along and on the water have been distinctive elements of the water-based Mekong Delta. Over a long history of development, these morphological settlements have been deteriorated due to environmental, economic, and cultural changes from water to mainland, resulted in the reductions of water-based communities and architectural deterioration. This research is aimed to analyze the distinguishing values of those housing types/communities in 5 chosen popular water-based settlements in Mekong Delta region to give positive recommendations for further changes.

Long-Term Cultural Change in Cognitive Development

1972 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Tomlinson-Keasey ◽  
Charles Blake Keasey
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Sixth Graders ◽  
Second Graders ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Cultural Events

It was hypothesized that animistic thinking and thinking about specific moral dilemmas have been affected by cultural events in the last few decades. Animistic thinking was examined in second graders ( n = 73) and was found to have declined markedly since 1929. In fifth and sixth graders ( n = 144) moral reasoning about slavery was at a significantly higher level than moral reasoning on six other dilemmas. Cognitive progress thus seems to be positively affected by cultural changes which are long-term and which allow the child time to consolidate the information and experience provided.

scholarly journals Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria: Radiocarbon Chronology, Cultural Change, and the 8.2 ka Event

Radiocarbon ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
J van der Plicht ◽  
P M M G Akkermans ◽  
O Nieuwenhuyse ◽  
A Kaneda ◽  
A Russell
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Statistics ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Climate Event ◽  
Radiocarbon Chronology

At Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria, we obtained a robust chronology for the 7th to early 6th millennium BC, the Late Neolithic. The chronology was obtained using a large set of radiocarbon dates, analyzed by Bayesian statistics. Cultural changes observed at ~6200 BC are coeval with the 8.2 ka climate event. The inhabitation remained continuous.

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