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Changing values: opportunitiesfor a new society

The purpose of life and new ideals:leisure time – the driving force of change

Great upheavals are taking place all around us. In one or two decades the world will be a very different place. A fundamentally different society is emerging, capable of the best or of the worst. Once again we find ourselves at a beginning – this is the encouraging and at the same time disconcerting feeling among an increasing number of people. Value structures and life styles of work-oriented industrial society, accepted unquestionably for many generations, are now being criticized, the meaning of life, its goals and quality are being re-examined and redefined. A recent study conducted by the Stanford Research Institute ...

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