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Post-materialism is the new values, related with the environment, participation, women’s movement, freedom of expression, and quality of life.
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Value, based on individual’s life experiences, is fundamental factors to determine the cognitive or perceptive attitude. Among a variety of values, materialism/post-materialism value has been applied, as most popular theoretical concept, to explain the different attitude across countries and generations. Inglehart (1971, 1990, 1995) and Abramson and Inglehart (1986), based on data from World Value Survey, explained that the change at the societal level from materialistic societies to post-materialistic societies linked with value changes at individual level. Post-materialism gives less stress to the old political agenda, such as economic development and physical security, which is considered important by conventional politics. Rather, it is much more regard with new values, such as the environment, participation, women’s...
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Kim, S. (2014). Post-materialism. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_2222
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