Studies in European Sociology
About the Book Series
Europe is currently undergoing massive change. In the former Eastern Europe, societies are adapting to post-communist regimes and economies and facing the implications of war in the Balkans. In the west the increased integration of the European Union impacts on every aspect of legal, economic and political life. The whole of Europe is going through major transformations in terms of gender, race and class. This series published by Routledge with the European Sociological Association, provides a forum for sociological responses to these developments.
Internationalisation of Social Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe: The ‘Catching Up’ -- A Myth or a Strategy?
1st Edition
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By Ilona Pálné Kovács, Dagmar Kutsar
January 30, 2025
Internationalisation of Social Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe explores the way in which social sciences, in comparison with other sciences in Europe, have been divided by the political orders of West and East. As part of the field of science policies in Europe, this book contributes to the ...
Artistic Practices: Social Interactions and Cultural Dynamics
1st Edition
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By Tasos Zembylas
October 12, 2015
Art matters. It affects us in our daily lives and is full of meanings that are valuable to all of us. As a catalyst for social interactions, art may either cause public conflict and create dissensions or facilitate mutual understanding and strengthen collective bonds. All of this is grounded in ...
Autobiographies of Transformation: Lives in Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
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By Mike Keen, Janusz Mucha
September 11, 2014
Autobiographies of Transformation is a completely unique history of sociology in Central and Eastern Europe in the post-Communist era. Through the autobiographies of ten key sociological witnesses from the region, the sociological imagination is turned upon itself, resulting in a ...
Cultural Overstretch?: Differences Between Old and New Member States of the EU and Turkey
1st Edition
By Jurgen Gerhards
August 12, 2014
Within a few years the European Union will be enlarged from fifteen to twenty-eight member states, including Turkey. Cultural Overstretch investigates whether the new countries culturally fit into the European Union. Interpreting the European treaties and the European Law, Gerhards describes ...
Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads
1st Edition
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By Aili Aarelaid-Tart, Li Bennich-Björkman
January 03, 2014
This book brings together life stories from five generations of Balts, living through the diverse and recurring transformations of the twentieth century: occupations, war, independence, totalitarianism, and democratic rule and market economy. The twentieth century history of the Baltic ...
Mobilizing Regions, Mobilizing Europe: Expert Knowledge and Scientific Planning in European Regional Development
1st Edition
By Sebastian M. Buettner
January 03, 2014
Regional development strategies are becoming more similar all around Europe, even though regional differences are more pronounced than ever and many European regions have become more autonomous actors. This thesis of a peculiar standardized diversification of sub-national space in the modern ...
The Road to Social Europe: A Contemporary Approach to Political Cultures and Diversity in Europe
1st Edition
By Jean-Claude Barbier
January 03, 2014
In the wake of the Greek and Irish crises, and at a moment when solidarity between states is hotly debated on a daily basis at EU level, it is important to understand how ‘solidarity’ can happen at all. The Road to Social Europe reviews the development of political cultural processes since the ...
Europe and Asia beyond East and West
1st Edition
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By Gerard Delanty
March 21, 2012
This major new book tackles key questions on Europe in the context of shifting parameters of East and West. The contributors - sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers and historians - show, from a variety of different perspectives, that the conventional equation of Europe with the West must be ...
Muslims in 21st Century Europe: Structural and Cultural Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Anna Triandafyllidou
March 02, 2012
Muslims in 21st Century Europe explores the interaction between native majorities and Muslim minorities in various European countries with a view to highlighting different paths of integration of immigrant and native Muslims. Starting with a critical overview of the institutionalisation of Islam ...
Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society
1st Edition
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By Partick Baert, Sokratis Koniordos, Giovanna Procacci, Carlo Ruzza
February 21, 2012
This book provides readers – students, researchers, academics, policy-makers, activists and interested non-specialists – with a sophisticated understanding of contemporary discussion, analysis and theorizing of issues pertaining to conflict, citizenship and civil society. It does so through ...
Social Class in Europe: An introduction to the European Socio-economic Classification
1st Edition
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By David Rose, Eric Harrison
February 21, 2012
This timely volume introduces a new social class schema, the European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC), which has been specifically developed and tested for use in EU comparative research. Social Class in Europe aims to introduce researchers to the new classification and its research potential....
Inclusions and Exclusions in European Societies
1st Edition
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By Martin Kohli, Alison Woodward
March 30, 2008
European social development over the last century has been characterized by an increasing inclusiveness of people into the ever-larger collectives of the nation state, the European Union and categories of welfare entitlement. Yet recent empirical data suggests that income gaps are growing and that ...