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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrative Material -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Is there a European society? -- Europe's debatable boundaries -- Identifying sub-regions of Europe -- Conclusion -- 2 The people of Europe -- Life expectancy -- Birth rates -- Death rates -- Immigration and overall changes in population size -- Marriage and family -- Conclusion -- 3 Identities: religion and ­ethnicity -- European religion -- Ethnicity, immigration and cultural diversity -- Conclusion -- 4 Europeans at work -- Employment sectors organized by type of product -- Types of occupation -- Conclusion -- 5 From occupations to classes -- Occupations, income and social class -- Income inequality, taxation, transfers and public services -- Conclusion -- 6 Delineating the class structures of contemporary Europe -- Class and citizenship -- Classes and power -- Conclusion -- 7 The wider implications of class -- Education and social mobility -- Health and life expectancy -- Class and political identity -- Conclusion -- 8 How many Europes? -- Norden -- South-West Europe -- Central Eastern Europe -- Further Eastern Europe -- North-West Europe -- The anglophones -- Conclusion -- Statistical Appendix -- References -- Index.

This paper addresses the issue of Church-state relations in the last twenty years with special respect to Latin America, specifically in Chile and Uruguay. In my project, I will be looking at the presidential administrations of Chilean presidents Michelle Bachelet and Sebastian Piñera and Uruguayan president Tabaré Vázquez. I will use newspaper articles from El Pais (Uruguay) and El Mercurio (Chile) to examine whether political affiliation or country history determines the activism of the Catholic Church in these countries. I argue that country history has a greater influence on the role of the Catholic Church in a country's politics than the political affiliation of the current sitting president in Chile and Uruguay. In conclusion, this project attempts to examine the dynamics of the Catholic Church and the state in this sample.

This invited article takes the opportunity occasioned by the approach of the millennium to look both backward and forward at the ills and the achievements of social work as a profession, at the changing political context in which we work, and at the successes and failures brought about by attempts to put the question of the worth of what we do beyond ideology through empirical research—in particular, through controlled experiments.

Due to the fact that multiple ideologies and different social models exist in the world today, with different consequences, it appears crucial for the EU to develop and sustain its model of economic and social regulation. This paper focuses on the way the European Union develops its social model in the forthcoming decades. Different models in EU member states mean that it is not possible to have a unique model so the paper will look at what the general approach should be. This work is divided into the following sections; the first section contains the theoretical approach to the social model and defines it; the second part is devoted to the European current social politics and the way the EU has been working in the field of social politics; and the third part looks more closely at the changes going on in the EU, focusing on the problem of globalization and new trends, especially into the way families and intimate relations are changing. This is important because individuals, lifestyle and the changing nature of the family are crucial for social politics. The fourth part is devoted to the new trends and expectations, especially after the Lisbon Agenda and economic crises, and to finding out the possible consequences they can have for the social model of the EU. A theoretical approach is combined with the available data so the full notion of the problem can be presented.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Challenges and Opportunities for China's ""Peaceful Rise"" -- Part 1 Domestic Conditions of China's Peaceful Rise -- 1 The Dialectic Relationship between Peaceful Development and China's Deep Reform -- 2 China's Peaceful Development, Regime Stability and Political Legitimacy -- 3 Corruption, Economic Growth and Regime Stability in China's Peaceful Rise -- 4 Strategic Repression and Regime Stability in China's Peaceful Development

This book contends that the impasse of the Left today is in part, a result of an anarchist 'common sense' among activists. The author argues that the vital dynamics of anarchism and social movements need to be combined with a reappraisal of the Communist party and state. While cynicism towards capitalism and existing political institutions is plentiful, this book argues that the Left appears mired in a reactive politics of resistance, unable to formulate programmes for substantive social change. Drawing insights from the history of the Left, political economy, contemporary critical theory and an in-depth study of Occupy, the author provides concrete suggestions as to how the Left might 'claim the twenty-first century' and realise a more equitable social order. Social Movements and Democracy in the 21st Century challenges activists and scholars to rethink social movements and political organisation, and to actively work towards enduring social change. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of social movement studies, Left theory, critical theory, political sociology and Marxism, as well as anyone with an interest in 'political change'.