There are approximately 200 nations on Earth and the social sciences are being practiced in each one, yet too little of this global enterprise is known to Western, particularly American, social scientists. Drawing upon five years of experience as editor-in-chief of a major international encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences, James D. Wright provides social scientists a representative sampling of the work of their international colleagues.

James D. Wright is an author, educator, and the Provost's Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Central Florida. He has written twenty-four books, most recently Lost Souls: Manners and Morals in Contemporary American Society (Routledge, 2018), and more than 300 journal articles, book chapters, essays, reviews, and polemics.

Preface. Part I. Studies from Asia. 1. Filipino Remittances. 2. Can Tourism Solve the Poverty Problem? A Case Study from China. 3. The Struggle over Historical Preservation in the People's Republic of China. 4. Japan's Falling Birth Rate and What to Do about It. 5. Japan's Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011. Part II. Studies from Central and Eastern Europe. 6. The Erased of Slovenia. 7. The Peasantry in Post-Socialist Hungary . 8. Physical Education and Social Policy in Hungary. 9. The Sociology of Everyday Life in Russia and Ukraine. 10. The Russian Middle Class. 11. Transylvanian Demography and the First World War. Part III. Studies from Australasia. 12. How to Preserve Indigenous Languages: Twitter! 13. Sexual Abuse of Children in New Zealand. Part IV. Studies from Africa. 14. Is Hatred of the "Other" Universal? The Curious Case of African Immigrants in South Africa. 15. Gender and Urban Agriculture in Nigeria. 16. Public Health in Nigeria: TB, HIV, Depression and Quality of Life. Part V. Studies from the Middle East. 17. Network Terrorism and the International Jihadi Movement. 18. Muslims in Europe. 19. Arab Sociology. 20. Social Media and the Arab Spring. Part VI. Studies from Latin America. 21. The Maquiladoras of Mexico: Disaster or Economic Salvation? 22. Renationalization in Contemporary Argentina. 23. Street Children in Honduras. Part VII. Studies from Elsewhere. 24. Cruise Ship Economics and Sociology. 25. Indigenous Rights and Resource Governance in the Circumpolar Regions. 26. The Lessons Learned. Index