Modern Societies
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comparative sociology
comparative study of social institutions
Contemporary Societies
Credential Inflation
Cross-border Capital Flows
demographic transition
Earlier Agrarian Societies
Energy Sources
EOI
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Foreign Investment Dependence
Gender Equality Score
global inequality research
GNP Growth
Great Famine
Human Development Index
IMR
Modern Birth Control Methods
Modern Family
Modern Mass Education
Pe Rc
Philadelphia's Central High School
Philadelphia’s Central High School
Practical Skill Education
Relevant Age Cohort
Rich Democracies
Robo Sapiens
secularization debate
social stratification theory
Status Group Education
Tertiary Education
welfare state analysis
West Germany
World Gdp
Product details
- ISBN 9781612056678
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Sanderson explores the nature of the contemporary world’s 200 societies by comparing and contrasting their basic institutions and patterns of social organization. Major topics include the rich democracies and how they became rich and democratic; the expansion of government and the welfare state; the collapse of Communism and the transition to postsocialist societies; the conditions of less-developed countries, with attention to those that are developing rapidly as well as those that continue to lag far behind; racial and ethnic divisions and conflicts worldwide; the gender revolution of the past fifty years and changing contemporary patterns of gender inequality throughout the world; major shifts in family patterns and the transition to below-replacement fertility; the global spread and expansion of mass education and educational credentialism; worldwide patterns of religious belief and practice; a detailed evaluation of the secularization thesis; economic, political, and cultural globalization; the nature of social and economic progress over the past two centuries; and nine predictions concerning the short-term and long-term future of the world. The book provides detailed and fully up-to-date statistical data on societies in forty-three tables.
