Inglehart-Welzel World Cultural Map

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Discussion

Brendan Graham Dempsey:

"Meaningful correlations can be drawn between the levels Graves and Kegan describe at the individual scale and the cultural values espoused by whole populations. For over 30 years, the World Values Survey and European Values Survey have been carrying out hundreds of surveys in over 100 countries containing over 90% of the world’s population. Responses to the survey questions now constitute a vast dataset for assessing patterns and trends in the worldviews of whole cultural zones.

Synthesizing the data, the famous Inglehart-Welzel World Cultural Map plots its findings along two axes: so-called “Survival” vs. “Self Expression” values and “Traditional” vs. “Secular Values.” Cultural zones characterized as high in survival/traditional values suggest collective manifestations of Graves’s B-O, C-P, and D-Q levels. As cultural zones move towards more self-expressive/secular values, the center of gravity shifts to E-R and F-S values.

The principal thesis of Inglehart’s 2018 book Cultural Evolution: People’s Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the World is that there is a recognizable trajectory of cultural evolution in the direction of self-expressive and secular values over time. As scarcity and material hardship decrease, cultural values evolve organically away from subsistence-based traditionalist hierarchies and towards more open and liberal norms based predicated on abundance. In this sense, there is a natural developmental trajectory for cultural evolution as well as individual development. Indeed, the two processes seem to mirror one another at the macro and micro scale, respectively."

(https://www.brendangrahamdempsey.com/emergentism-notes)

Source

• Book: Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity for the Metamodern World. By Adyahanzi, Brendan Graham Dempsey. Metamodern Spirituality Series, Vol. VI. [2] For more, see also: Emergentism as a Religion of Complexity