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  • This article explores the empirical support for the two rival perspectives of diversity andpostmaterialism, each of which predicts different patterns and trends of social solidarityin the Western world. The diversity perspective holds that ethnocultural heterogeneityunder mines social solidarity, and consequently expects social solidarity to be weaker inmore heterogeneous societies. In the diversity logic, social solidarity should have declinedin Western societies as these societies have become more diverse due to continuousimmigration. Postmaterialism theory, by contrast, posits a positive link between postmaterialismand social solidarity, and would expect social solidarity to have increasedbecause of rising levels of postmaterialism across the Western world. This article found norelation between diversity and social solidarity at either the individual or the national level incross-sectional analyses of WVS and EVS survey data. Neither was the diversity argumentsupported by trend data on opinions about the poor. The positive relations betweenpostmaterialism and social solidarity on the other hand did confirm the postmaterialismperspective. Still, as postmaterialism contributed little to explaining the variance in socialsolidarity at the individual level and as there was no connection between postmaterialismand social solidarity at the macro-level, it can be questioned whether the solidaristicsentiments expressed by postmaterialists are sufficiently deep and lasting to underpinrobust welfare policies. (xsd:string)
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  • Diversity and Postmaterialism as Rival Perspectives in Accounting for Social Solidarity: Evidence from International Surveys (xsd:string)
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  • In International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 50(1), 2009 (xsd:string)
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