230 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Rich Democracies, I; Chapter 2 Rich Democracies, II; Chapter 3 Socialist and Postsocialist Societies; Chapter 4 The Less-Developed World; Chapter 5 Race and Ethnicity; Chapter 6 Gender Roles and Relations; Chapter 7 Marriage and Families; Chapter 8 Modern Mass Education; Chapter 9 Religion in the World; Chapter 10 Globalization, Arthur S. Alderson; Chapter 11 Assessing Past and Future;
Biography
Stephen K. Sanderson
