Preface
1. Introduction
2. Analytical Framework
3. The Promises and Pitfalls of State Intervention
4. Welfare States: Affordability and Perverse Incentives
5. Population Growth While Fertility Drops
6. Migration and the Multicultural Society
7. Economic Inequality
8. Gender Inequalities
9. Crime
10. Corruption
11. The Fragility of the Financial System
12. Global Warming and Climate Change
13. Secularization, Religious Fundamentalism, and Religious Extremism
Biography
Nan Dirk de Graaf is an Official Fellow at Nuffield College and Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford. His research interests include social stratification – especially educational attainment and how social mobility affects political preferences, health and attitudes, sociology of religion, pro-social behaviour, and political sociology.
Dingeman Wiertz is a Lecturer in Social Science and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London. Having received training in economics as well as sociology, his research interests include civic engagement, inter-ethnic relations, social networks, economic hardship, political attitudes, school choice, and residential segregation.
