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Cohort change and the diffusion of environmental concern: a cross national analysisAuthor: Nawrotzki, Raphael J; Pampel, Fred CProQuest document link

Abstract: This study explores value change across cohorts for a multinational population sample. Employing adiffusion-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: 2013Publication 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: 01990039CODEN: 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

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BibliographyCitation 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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