Table of Contents:
  • The European Union and the United States as two variants of Western modernity / Alberto Martinelli
  • The economic sphere / Antonio M. Chiesi
  • Inequality / Paul W. Kingston and Laura M. Holian
  • Family / Theodore Caplow and Salustiano Del Campo
  • Politics and institutional architectures / Alberto Martinelli
  • Welfare / Gérard Cornilleau
  • Value change / Michel Forsé and Maxime Parodi
  • Religion / Mathias Bös and Kai Hebel
  • Cities / Patrick Le Galès and Mathieu Zagrodzki
  • The American and the European models of society : not so different after all / Alberto Martinelli
  • Appendix with a synthetic picture of the most relevent trends / Laurence Duboys Fresney.