My dissertation research investigates the broad consequences of global crises that have fundamentally transformed the social world over the last few decades. The first two decades of the twenty-first century witnessed profound crises in a wide range of social lives that materialized in economic, political, and cultural dimensions. Particularly in the economically advanced world, the multiplicity of crises was salient: countries in Western Europe and North America were not only hit hardest by the Great Recession in the late 2000s but also confronted with serious challenges rooted in the multicultural turn of the society and declining public confidence in political establishment. I examine social changes that resulted from those crises, focusing on how various actors and groups reacted to the crises and what transformations the crises brought for the political systems and social world. This dissertation comprises three chapters. The first chapter focuses on the economic crisis with particular attention to the Great Recession that broke out in the late 2000s. The second chapter examines more complex dynamics of political crises. Specifically, I explore the rise of populism, which can be best understood as a manifestation of multiple crises that encompassed economic, political, and cultural shifts that have occurred across the world in recent years. The final chapter explores the consequence of the economic and political crises for our contemporary society. I devote particular attention to social integration, which has seriously weakened in years of the prolonged economic recession and populist surge.