The Myth of Asian Exceptionalism Response to Bomhoff and Gu  

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Welzel, Christian

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jcca) vol. 43 no. 7 (Oct. 2012), page 1039-1054.
Topik: Cultural Psychology; Developmental; Social; National Development; Values; Attitudes; Beliefs
Fulltext: JCCP_43_07_1039.pdf (1.87MB)

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In a series of contributions, Welzel describes modernization as human empowerment: a process that emancipates people from external authority. Human empowerment theory (HET) posits two sequential mechanisms. First, cognitive empowerment through rising levels of education and knowledge leads to motivational empowerment, manifest in rising emancipation values. Second, rising emancipation values nurture mass aspirations for liberal democracy, leading to more effective democratic practices. Using World Values Survey (WVS) data from a dozen Asian societies, Bomhoff and Gu claim that Asia is different because these mechanisms do not work among Asian societies. Against these claims, this response shows that Bomhoff and Gu’s results are inconclusive. Upon proper examination of WVS evidence, their conclusions turn actually into the opposite: The emancipation logic of HET applies to Asia as much as it applies to the “West.”

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