Abstract
Empincal value research is currently enjoying a renaissance. Attempts to survey people's values have proliferated since the 1970s, and their theoretical weight has increased; the concept of social values has acquired new promi nence in the social sciences For example, in his most recent works Jurgen Habermas draws extensively on empincal research into values. It is my intention in this article to criticize Ronald Inglehart's empirical theory of what he calls a value revolution, and to assess the usefulness of this theory in social scientific analysis. I shall then compare Inglehart with the line of empirical value research onginally developed by Milton Rokeach. Finally, there is a brief introduction to a study of the value systems of Finnish people that was based on Rokeach's model.

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