TY - JOUR
T1 - Influences on the knowledge and beliefs of ordinary people about developmental hierarchies
AU - Binstock, Georgina
AU - Thornton, Arland
AU - Abbasi-Shavazi, Mohammad J.
AU - Ghimire, Dirgha
AU - Xie, Yu
AU - Yount, Kathryn M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research has benefited from the support of many individuals and organizations. The authors thank Claudia Stilman for her work in the analysis of the data and in the preparation of the tables, Julie de Jong for data assistance, and Judy Baughn, Jana Bruce, Amanda Schuetz, and Tina Wells for administrative support and preparation of the article. Errors of omission and commission remain with the authors. With the exception of Georgina Binstock and Arland Thornton, who coordinated the analyses for this article, the authors are listed alphabetically.
PY - 2013/8
Y1 - 2013/8
N2 - This article is motivated by the idea that development and developmental hierarchies have been constructed and embraced for centuries by scholars and policy makers and have been disseminated among ordinary people. Recent research shows that most people have constructions of development hierarchies that are similar across countries. In this article, we extend this research by examining how basic social factors influence ordinary people's beliefs about development and developmental hierarchies in six countries: Argentina, China, Egypt, Iran, Nepal, and the United States. Results show that the understanding and perception of developmental hierarchies vary by gender and education. These results are important because they show how distinct groups of people have differential access to information or ideas.
AB - This article is motivated by the idea that development and developmental hierarchies have been constructed and embraced for centuries by scholars and policy makers and have been disseminated among ordinary people. Recent research shows that most people have constructions of development hierarchies that are similar across countries. In this article, we extend this research by examining how basic social factors influence ordinary people's beliefs about development and developmental hierarchies in six countries: Argentina, China, Egypt, Iran, Nepal, and the United States. Results show that the understanding and perception of developmental hierarchies vary by gender and education. These results are important because they show how distinct groups of people have differential access to information or ideas.
KW - Comparative studies
KW - North Africa
KW - South and East Asia
KW - South and North America
KW - development hierarchies
KW - developmental worldviews
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U2 - 10.1177/0020715213506726
DO - 10.1177/0020715213506726
M3 - Article
C2 - 24634541
AN - SCOPUS:84889038875
SN - 0020-7152
VL - 54
SP - 325
EP - 344
JO - International Journal of Comparative Sociology
JF - International Journal of Comparative Sociology
IS - 4
ER -