Failed promises of modernization: Temporal trends in religiosity, postmaterialism and Ethno-nationalist attitudes in the Netherlands

The process of modernization is understood to imply changing tends in prevalence of certain value orientations. Theoretical accounts dealing with the processes of global value changes include notions such as secularization, modernization, and postmaterialist value shift, among others. The paper analyzes trends in prevalence of thee basic value or ideological orientations: religiosity, postmaterialism and nationalist attitudes. The classical theories of value transformation imply decrease in religiosity and nationalist orientations, and increase in post-materialism. The problem is examined usin... Mehr ...