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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Rich Democracies, I: Economy, Work, and Class
Premodern Prelude
Being and Becoming a Rich Democracy
Occupation and Stratification
Modern Welfare States
From Industrial to Postindustrial Society?
2. Rich Democracies, II: The Polity
Early Modern States
The Increasing Size and Scope of the State
From Autocracy to Democracy
The Rarity and Difficulty of Democracy
3. Socialist and Postsocialist Societies
The Nature of State Socialism
Leninist Regimes
Reform and the Transition to Postsocialism
The Great Collapse
Postsocialism
Does Socialism Have a Future?
4. The Less-Developed World
The Nature of Underdevelopment
Why Underdevelopment?
Development in East Asia
Development in Latin America
Sub-Saharan Africa and the Failure of Development
5. Race and Ethnicity
Race in the United States
Race in Brazil
Race in South Africa
Ethnic Homogeneity and Heterogeneity
Ethnicity and its Discontents
6. Gender Roles and Relations
The Patriarchal Past
The Great Gender Transformation
The Contemporary Situation
7. Marriage and Families
The Traditional Family in Asia and Europe
The Evolution of the Modern Family System
The Contemporary Family Revolution
From Large Families to Small
The Modern Family: Change or Decline?
8. Modern Mass Education
Education in Historical Perspective
The Emergence and Expansion of Mass Education
Explaining Educational Expansion
Credentialism and its Consequences
9. Religion in the World
What Religion Is
The World’s Religions
Religious Groups in Modern Societies
Religion in the United States and Europe
Religion in Latin America
The Secularization Controversy
10. Globalization (with Arthur S. Alderson)
What Globalization Is
Globalation and its Critics
Is Globalization Something New?
11. Assessing Past and Future
Have We Progressed?
Are We Happier?
Nine Predictions in Search of a Future
References
Index
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