Multi-faceted Social Transformations: Challenges and Studies brings together the proceedings of the 7th Slovenian Social Science Conference, The Challenges of Social Transformations, held in September 2014. It was organized by the School of Advanced Social Studies (SASS), the Slovenian National Committee of the Management of Social Transformations programme (MOST), and the Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO. The multidisciplinary contributions presented here analyse various aspects of the economic, social, and cultural transformations that accompany the contemporary globalized world....