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  • Understandably, Democrats sought to gain support from the new bastions of affluent activism we discussed in chapter 6—the advocacy groups that had burst onto the scene in the 1960s and 1970s to champion the concerns of upper-middle-class Americans about environmentalism, consumer rights, and other postmaterial causes.

    Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010

  • If some of this subcultural desituationism seems self referential and perhaps adorned with postmaterial semanticist theory then maybe the creation/destruction distinction is intrinsically fostering a prepatriarchialist sense of postmaterial discourse.

    Modernism Schmodernism « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008

  • Understandably, Democrats sought to gain support from the new bastions of affluent activism we discussed in chapter 6—the advocacy groups that had burst onto the scene in the 1960s and 1970s to champion the concerns of upper-middle-class Americans about environmentalism, consumer rights, and other postmaterial causes.

    Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010

  • Understandably, Democrats sought to gain support from the new bastions of affluent activism we discussed in chapter 6—the advocacy groups that had burst onto the scene in the 1960s and 1970s to champion the concerns of upper-middle-class Americans about environmentalism, consumer rights, and other postmaterial causes.

    Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010

  • Understandably, Democrats sought to gain support from the new bastions of affluent activism we discussed in chapter 6—the advocacy groups that had burst onto the scene in the 1960s and 1970s to champion the concerns of upper-middle-class Americans about environmentalism, consumer rights, and other postmaterial causes.

    Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010

  • The shift towards a immaterial focus can also be shown sociologically, for example through the work of Paul Ray on cultural creatives, and of Ronald Inglehart on the profound shift to postmaterial values and aspirations.

    P2P Wiki - Importance of neotraditional approaches in the reconstructive transmodern era William Harryman 2009

  • "For half a century we called upon unbounded invention and untiring industry to create an order of plenty for all of our people," as president Lyndon Johnson said in his "Great Society" speech in 1965, which exemplified this postmaterial view.

    Lawrence B. Glickman: Consumer Protection Redux: The Lessons of History 2009

  • The revived consumer movement of the 1960s and 1970s was central to what the political scientist Jeffrey Berry has called "postmaterial liberalism," a politics concerned not just with economic growth but with improving the quality of life.

    Lawrence B. Glickman: Consumer Protection Redux: The Lessons of History 2009

  • Protecting IP in digital formats is a serious issue in the postmaterial future we are running toward.

    Dear M Linden - Please help content creators protect our Intellectual Property (and save LL a lot of time and trouble, too) Bettina Tizzy 2008

  • For the past few decades, Americans have devoted more of their energies to postmaterial arenas and less and less, for better and worse, to the sheer production of wealth.

    NYT > Home Page By DAVID BROOKS 2011

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