Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Volume 3, Transformations in Values, Norms, Cultures
Report of the International Panel on Social Progress

Assesses the achievements of world societies, the trends and dangers, and the possible futures in the twenty-first century.

International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) (Author)

9781108423144, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 July 2018

350 pages, 24 b/w illus. 2 tables
28.5 x 22 x 1.8 cm, 1.05 kg

'The publication of the first Report of the International Panel on Social Progress is a significant intellectual event, both because of its hugely ambitious aim - of uniting the world's leading researchers from social sciences and the humanities to develop research-based, multi-disciplinary, non-partisan, action-guiding solutions to the central challenges of our time - and because it represents the completion of a mammoth effort in the service of this aim by a diverse set of 269 authors.' Alexander Raubo and Alex Voorhoeve, Economics and Philosophy

This is the third of three volumes containing a report from the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP). The IPSP is an independent association of top research scholars with the goal of assessing methods for improving the main institutions of modern societies. Written in accessible language by scholars across the social sciences and humanities, these volumes assess the achievements of world societies in past centuries, the current trends, the dangers that we are now facing, and the possible futures in the twenty-first century. It covers the main socio-economic, political, and cultural dimensions of social progress, global as well as regional issues, and the diversity of challenges and their interplay around the world. This particular volume covers topics such as world cultures and religions, families, global health, education, and the contributions of social sciences to institutional change.

Introduction to Volume 3
15. Social progress and cultural change
16. Religions and social progress: critical assessments and creative partnerships
17. Pluralization of families
18. Global health and the changing contours of human life
19. The contribution of education to social progress
20. Belonging
21. The Multiple directions of social progress: ways forward
22. The contribution of the social sciences to policy and institutional change
Authors
Index.

Subject Areas: Political economy [KCP], Public administration [JPP], Political science & theory [JPA], Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography [JHMC], Social & political philosophy [HPS]