In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution.
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.
The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage.
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe.
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social mobility.
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