Cultural change can occur from any number of events that include diffusion, acculturation, innovation, new technology (new inventions), new discoveries, or contact with other cultures (Steward, 1990). Barnett (1953) proposed that cultures change to a process of innovation which represented an overall process of change in mental constructs. Other theorists have posited that cultural change comes about due to such processes as natural disasters, colonization or war, changes in communication, and trade or exchanges between different cultures (Inglehart & Welzel, 2005). Perhaps the most complete description of the processes that affect cultural change comes from Rochon (1998). Rochon posited that cultural change can occur as a result of a change in values. There are three general processes of change that can stimulate a change of values in cultures (Rochon, 1998): A conversion of values such as was seen in the last...

In this mode of change previous value systems are changed into new ones.
2. A creation of values that can occur for any number of reasons including discovery or invention, contact with new and different cultures, or the occurrence of new situations that have not yet been experienced. This mode of change occurs when something new or different is imposed on a culture.

3. A new association or new connection between previously believed unrelated values occurs. In this mode of change value systems that were not believed to be related or connected in the past suddenly are viewed to share some type of association. For instance, it was once believed that the theory of Darwinian evolution and…