spotlight is coming up next this time al gore nov talk to the founder of the world values study ronald engel hard to find out if human values are changing and his views on russians in particular. hello again and welcome to the show on r.t. i'm al going on and today my guest in the studio is ronald. he made his name and sociology back in the nineteen seventies by discovering a major cultural shift in the western society to describe the new reality here introduce the word post materialist for thirty years he has been conducting the influential world values survey and wished directions human values changing we the people become a half year and why all the nations. ronald hart is on spotlight today to answer mine and your questions. in doha is a political scientist who developed the social theory of materialism the theory is a useful tool in understanding modern culture used in the arts research focuses on cultural change and its consequences he discovered the values of people in boston dust real contraries remarkably his other interests carb a vast field of knowledge and use words have been tra