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Introduction / by Maria Immacolata Macioti -- The modern world and its destiny -- Counter-cultures and postmodernism -- Beyond the authoritarian personality -- Society and state structures in creative tension -- The city and civil society -- New approaches to social movements in Western Europe -- The culture of violence -- Social marginality and violence in neo-urban societies -- Modern rationality and the paradox of the sacred -- History and sociology -- The lessons of positivism -- American and European social science -- Biography and the social sciences -- Thorstein Veblen and his critics -- The social type of the businessman -- Constantinian Christianity and the future of the Catholic Church -- The media pope -- Reflections on America -- Time and its social transformations -- On photography.