The metaphor of “turmoil” in the title suggests turbulent social dynamics, rapid processes of change that generate new qualities but whose final outcome remains uncertain. This collective volume consists of 10 chapters by 11 authors, providing analyses of mutually entwined and interdependent segments of social reality: poverty, entrepreneurship, households (their structure, work and economic strategies, internal relations), marriage, urban development of Belgrade and the urban context of childhood, attitudes to decision-making and political (electoral) behavior. The book is another evidence of the continuity of the Institute’s research tradition dating back to the 1980s, with an additional focus on everyday life, as a distinct level of social reality, from the early 1990s on.