Examines how globalization, technology, community, gender, identity, family, and the environment will change over the next century.

With the coming of the new millennium, this collection of articles examines how globalization, technology, community, gender, identity, family, and the environment will change over the next century. The book offers fresh perspectives on all of these issues by not only examining the state of current events, but by also predicting what changes will occur. In addition, authors describe changes they think should occur. By encouraging prescription as well as prediction, this volume provides a platform for a reinvigorated role for social scientists as active contributors to the creation of more just and humane societies.