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.
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