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.
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
Edited
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
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
European Societies: Fusion or Fission?
1st Edition
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By Thomas Boje, Bart Van Steenbergen, Sylvia Walby
January 24, 2008
Are the recent developments in Europe bringing countries together or pulling them apart? The leading experts in this book (including Sheila Allen, Marlis Buchmann, Piotr Sztompka, and Patrick Ziltener) cover a wide range of subjects, including the move towards political democracy and market economy...
The Myth of Generational Conflict: The Family and State in Ageing Societies
1st Edition
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By Sara Arber, Claudine Attias-Donfut
January 24, 2008
The ageing of Western societies has provoked extensive sociological debate, surrounding both the role of the state and whether it can afford the cost of an ageing population, and the role of the family, especially women, in supporting older people. In this important book, the authors examine how ...
The End of the Welfare State?: Responses to State Retrenchment
1st Edition
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By Stefan Svallfors, Peter Taylor-Gooby
December 01, 2007
Throughout the world, politicians from all the main parties are cutting back on state welfare provision, encouraging people to use the private sector instead and developing increasingly stringent techniques for the surveillance of the poor. Almost all experts agree that we are likely to see further...
Will Europe Work?: Integration, Employment and the Social Order
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Kohli, Mojca Novak
November 08, 2002
In the post war years European integration was driven by nation states attempting to stimulate economic growth and social cohesion through European trade and cooperation. The results were prosperous, and unified Western European societies were based on full employment and redistributive welfare ...
Young Europeans, Work and Family
1st Edition
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By Julia Brannen, Susan Lewis, Anne Nilsen
February 22, 2002
Based on qualitative research carried out with young people aged from 18 to 30 in five European countries, Young Europeans, Work and Family examines young people's pathways to adulthood, and their perspectives on their future work and family lives. This enlightening book investigates young ...