Tag: post-materialism
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Big Sort: Final Thoughts
(Link to Part 11) As we wrap up this series on Bill Bishop's The Big Sort, I'll have to say that I think he makes a pretty convincing case that sorting has happened. One of the questions I have is whether or not this sorting indicates a significant cultural shift or whether it is part…
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Big Sort: Post-Materialism
(Link to Part 3) Earlier in this Big Sort series, we noted Bill Bishop’s observation that the first half of the twentieth century had been about economic specialization and the second half about social specialization. What drove this social specialization? Bishop calls it post-materialism. He writes: The new politics was molded by post-materialist realities. Tradition,…