Preference for modernization is universal, but expected modernization trajectories are culturally diversified: A nine-country study of folk theories of societal development

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dc.abstract.enCultural sensitivity in societal development has been advocated for since at least the 1960s but has remained understudied. Our goal is to address this gap and to investigate folk theories of societal development. We aimed to identify both universal and culturally specific lay beliefs about what constitutes good societal development. We collected data from 2,684 participants from Japan, Hong Kong (China), Poland, Turkey, Brazil, France, Nigeria, the USA, and Canada. We measured preferences for 28 development aims. We used multidimensional scaling, analysis of variance, and pairwise comparisons to identify universal and country-specific preferences. Our results demonstrate that what people understand as modernization is fairly universal across countries, but specific pathways of development and preferences towards these pathways tend to vary between countries. We distinguished three facets of modernization—foundational aims (e.g., trust, economic development), welfare aims (e.g., poverty eradication, education), and inclusive aims (e.g., openness, gender equality)—and incorporated them into a folk meta-theory of modernization. In all nine countries, the three facets of modernization were preferred more than conventional aims (e.g., military, demographic growth). We propose a method of implementing our findings into a culturally sensitive modernization index.
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii we Wrocławiu
dc.affiliationInstytut Psychologii
dc.contributor.authorKrys, Kuba
dc.contributor.authorCapaldi, Colin A.
dc.contributor.authorUchida, Yukiko
dc.contributor.authorCantarero, Katarzyna
dc.contributor.authorTorres, Claudio
dc.contributor.authorIs¸ık, Idil
dc.contributor.authorWai Lan Yeung, Victoria
dc.contributor.authorHaas, Brian W.
dc.contributor.authorTeyssier, Julien
dc.contributor.authorAndrade, Laura
dc.contributor.authorDenoux, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorIgbokwe, David O.
dc.contributor.authorKocimska-Zych, Agata
dc.contributor.authorVilleneuve, Lea
dc.contributor.authorZelenski, John M.
dc.date.access2022-12
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-04T08:37:48Z
dc.date.available2024-12-04T08:37:48Z
dc.date.created2022-02-14
dc.date.issued2022-12
dc.description.abstract<jats:p>Cultural sensitivity in societal development has been advocated for since at least the 1960s but has remained understudied. Our goal is to address this gap and to investigate folk theories of societal development. We aimed to identify both universal and culturally specific lay beliefs about what constitutes good societal development. We collected data from 2,684 participants from Japan, Hong Kong (China), Poland, Turkey, Brazil, France, Nigeria, the USA, and Canada. We measured preferences for 28 development aims. We used multidimensional scaling, analysis of variance, and pairwise comparisons to identify universal and country‐specific preferences. Our results demonstrate that what people understand as modernization is fairly universal across countries, but specific pathways of development and preferences towards these pathways tend to vary between countries. We distinguished three facets of modernization—foundational aims (e.g., trust, economic development), welfare aims (e.g., poverty eradication, education), and inclusive aims (e.g., openness, gender equality)—and incorporated them into a folk meta‐theory of modernization. In all nine countries, the three facets of modernization were preferred more than conventional aims (e.g., military, demographic growth). We propose a method of implementing our findings into a culturally sensitive modernization index.</jats:p>
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dc.description.issue4
dc.description.physical731-746
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume25
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/ajsp.12533
dc.identifier.eissn1467-839X
dc.identifier.issn1367-2223
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/1136
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajsp.12533
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC
dc.rights.questionYes_rights
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dc.subject.enultural sensitivity
dc.subject.enculture
dc.subject.enHDI
dc.subject.enmodernization
dc.subject.ensocietal development
dc.swps.sciencecloudnosend
dc.titlePreference for modernization is universal, but expected modernization trajectories are culturally diversified: A nine-country study of folk theories of societal development
dc.title.journalAsian Journal of Social Psychology
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle