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1. Cohort change and the diffusion of environmental concern: a cross-national analysis................................ 1
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Cohort change and the diffusion of environmental concern: a cross-national analysis
Author: Nawrotzki, Raphael J; Pampel, Fred C

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Abstract: This study explores value change across cohorts for a multinational population sample. Employing a
diffusion-of-innovations approach, we combine competing theories predicting the relationship between
socioeconomic status (SES) and environmentalism: post-materialism and affluence theories, and global
environmentalism theory. The diffusion argument suggests that high-SES groups first adopt pro-environmental
views, but as time passes by, environmentalism diffuses to lower-SES groups. We test the diffusion argument
using a sample of 18 countries for two waves (years 1993 and 2000) from the International Social Survey
Project. Cross-classified multilevel modeling allows us to identify a nonlinear interaction between cohort and
education, our core measure of SES, in predicting environmental concern, while controlling for age and period.
We find support for the diffusion argument and demonstrate that the positive effect of education on
environmental concern first increases among older cohorts and then starts to level off until a bend point is
reached for individuals born around 1940 and becomes progressively weaker for younger
cohorts.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
Publication title: Population and Environment
Volume: 35
Issue: 1
Pages: 1-25
Publication year: 2013
Publication date: Sep 2013
Year: 2013
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Place of publication: New York
Country of publication: Netherlands
Publication subject: Population Studies, Psychology, Sociology
ISSN: 01990039
CODEN: PENVDK
Source type: Scholarly Journals
Language of publication: English
Document type: Feature
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11111-012-0182-4
ProQuest document ID: 1416642541
Document URL: http://search.proquest.com/docview/1416642541?accountid=39490
Copyright: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
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Last updated: 2013-08-02
Database: ABI/INFORM Complete
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Citation style: APA 6th - American Psychological Association, 6th Edition
Raphael, J. N., & Fred, C. P. (2013). Cohort change and the diffusion of environmental concern: A cross-
national analysis. Population and Environment, 35(1), 1-25. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11111-012-0182-4

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