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
Edited
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 ...
The Social Meaning of Children and Fertility Change in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne Lise Ellingsaeter, An-Magritt Jensen, Merete Lie
October 14, 2024
Low fertility in Europe has given rise to the notion of a ‘fertility crisis’. This book shifts the attention from fertility decline to why people do have children, asking what children mean to them. It investigates what role children play in how young adults plan their lives, and why and how young ...
EU Social Inclusion Policies in Post-Socialist Countries: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Perspectives on Implementation
1st Edition
Edited
By Ingrid Fylling, Elena Baciu, Janne Breimo
March 31, 2021
The fact that post-socialist European Union (EU) countries are struggling with implementation of the EU's social inclusion policy is well known. But why is that so? Are the problems solely connected with how inclusion policies are enforced, or could it just as likely be the way policies ...
Post-identity?: Culture and European Integration
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard McMahon
December 12, 2019
Collective identity, the emotionally powerful sense of belonging to a group, is a crucial source of popular legitimacy for nations. However efforts since the 1990s to politically support European integration by using identity mechanisms borrowed from nationalism have had very limited success. ...
Religion, Identity and Politics: Germany and Turkey in Interaction
1st Edition
Edited
By Haldun Gülalp, Günter Seufert
December 12, 2019
German–Turkish relations, which have a long history and generally unrecognized depth, have rarely been examined as mutually formative processes. Isolated instances of influence have been examined in detail, but the historical and still ongoing processes of mutual interaction have rarely been ...
Wage Distribution Fairness in Post-Socialist Countries: Situation and Socialization
1st Edition
By Zsófia Ignácz
December 12, 2019
Fairness of wage distribution – or the perception of such – is a phenomenon crucial for the stability of new democracies. While theories exist about how change of the political system trickles down to the attitudinal level, the systematic analysis of the effect of economic transition on public ...
Green European: Environmental Behaviour and Attitudes in Europe in a Historical and Cross-Cultural Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Audrone Telesiene, Matthias Gross
October 18, 2018
Green European addresses the quest for a better understanding of European type(s) of environmentalism. This monograph focuses on public attitudes and behaviours and the culturally rooted as well as country specific differences. The book addresses the wider issue that many European countries are ...
Collective Memories in War
1st Edition
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By Elena Rozhdestvenskaya, Victoria Semenova, Irina Tartakovskaya, Krzysztof Kosela
September 10, 2018
This edited collection offers an empirical exploration of social memory in the context of politics, war, identity and culture. With a substantive focus on Eastern Europe, it employs the methodologies of visual studies, content and discourse analysis, in-depth interviews and surveys to substantiate ...
Artistic Practices: Social Interactions and Cultural Dynamics
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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 Jürgen 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
Edited
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 ...