@article{fcb5a1a3a761442c892dc2245b114ef0,
title = "Knowledge and beliefs about national development and developmental hierarchies: The viewpoints of ordinary people in thirteen countries",
abstract = "Scholars and policy makers have for centuries constructed and used developmental hierarchies to characterize different countries. The hypotheses motivating this paper are that such social constructions have been circulated internationally, are constructed similarly in various countries, and follow the social constructions of elite international organizations, such as the United Nations. This paper uses data from 15 surveys in 13 diverse countries to study how developmental hierarchies are understood in everyday life. Our research shows that most people have constructions of developmental hierarchies that are similar across countries and are similar to the developmental hierarchies constructed by the United Nations. These findings suggest that developmental hierarchies are widely understood around the world and are widely available to ordinary people as they make decisions about many aspects of life.",
keywords = "Comparative studies, Cultural diffusion, Development, Developmental hierarchies, Developmental worldviews, Inequality, International stratification",
author = "Arland Thornton and Georgina Binstock and Abbasi-Shavazi, {Mohammad Jalal} and Dirgha Ghimire and Arjan Gjonca and Attila Melegh and Colter Mitchell and Mansoor Moaddel and Yu Xie and Yang, {Li shou} and Linda Young-DeMarco and Yount, {Kathryn M.}",
note = "Funding Information: This project has benefited from the support of many individuals and organizations. This work was supported by grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [ R37-HD-039425 , R21-HD-050-259 ], the Michigan Center for the Demography of Aging, the United States Institute of Peace, the Research Office of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Tehran, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation through the Emory University Center for Myth and Ritual in American Family Life, Eastern Michigan University, the Population Studies Center of the University of Michigan, and the Survey Methodology Program of the University of Michigan. We 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, and Amanda Schuetz for administrative support and preparation of the manuscript. We also appreciate the comments from anonymous reviewers on an earlier version of this manuscript. Errors of omission and commission rest with the authors. ",
year = "2012",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.03.005",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "41",
pages = "1053--1068",
journal = "Social Science Research",
issn = "0049-089X",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "5",
}