Applicability of cultural and social values research based on ingleharts’s theory of evolutionary modernization

Abstract

Popularity and wide applicability of R. Inglehart’s evolutionary modernization theory and three pillars of social changes by Inglehart: techno-economic modernization which is manifested in becoming “knowledge society”; growth of self-expression values coming out of declining of violence; democratization as a process in a new type of society which satisfies people’s growing need to be emancipated from authorities, to have more options.