Between the years 2000 and 2007 in North America, Canada included a survey (with a hundred thousand people), was on "What are your values at the dawn of the 21st century." This large study confirms the classical values well known, those of the conservatives and the modern. But the great surprise is another class appears very surprising values. Sociologists have called "Cultural Creatives" the group 38% of humans who express a genuine sensitivity, concurrent to the six dimensions studied: - Respect for the environment and interest in natural health practices, - recognition of the importance and the place of women in society - distancing relative to the need to appear and have - interest in personal or spiritual development - social involvement - cultural openness.
This survey was repeated in France in 1015 on a sample of approximately peronnes, and Japan, the Netherlands and in the countries of Central Europe ... The results are similar for all these countries. The "Cultural Creatives" are now known sociologists, although the "Cultural Creatives" are unfamiliar with them.
My opinion of this book: "Many of hope: these data indicate internal values of the people, not of ideology in favor of one party or another. With the combination of repeated financial crises (very real), and home values (though pointed) can be Will we hear about a world in which the research value of the "inner well-being" will replace the value fashionable "Money and profit?".
