The sociology of Europe is a growing and diverse field. This book addresses it in a direct, wide ranging and up-to-date way.
Exploring the Sociology of Europe:
• clearly maps this new and emerging field
• challenges and renews the sociological analysis of European modernity
• provides an understanding of Europe as an historical, social and civil complex
• develops and applies new interpretations of the key sociological themes of globalization, citizenship and cosmopolitanism to contemporary European society
This is a discerning and relevant book providing an informed analysis of European society which identifies and defines contemporary issues and engages with key social theoretical perspectives.
Covering the substantive historical sociological aspects of Europe (Part 1), the historical and comparative sociology of the nation-state (Part 2), and the comparative sociology of welfare capitalism (Part 3) Maurice Roche sets out a clear and effective framework for understanding the sociology of Europe.
The book will be of interest to all students, researchers and academics involved in studying, teaching and researching the expanding field of modern European society.
Inhoudsopgave
Approaching European Society
The European Social Complex: Europe as Network and Empire?
PART ONE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL COMPLEX: CIVILIZATIONS AND NATION STATES
Origins of the European Social Complex: Pre-Modernity, Commonalities and Europe as a ′Civilization′
Developing the Modern European Complex: Nation States, Citizens and Difference
PART TWO: THE MODERN EUROPEAN COMPLEX AND SOCIAL CHANGE: A EUROPE OF NATIONS, WARFARE STATES AND WELFARE STATES
The Modern European Complex, War and Peace
The Modern European Complex, Welfare and Citizenship
PART THREE: THE EUROPEAN COMPLEX IN THE 21ST CENTURY: CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL CHANGE AND EUROPEAN WELFARE CAPITALISM
Contemporary Social Change and European Welfare Capitalism: The Challenges of Globalization and Post-Industrialism
The European Union and the European Social Complex: The Europeanization of Welfare States and Welfare Capitalism?
The European Civil Complex: Cosmopolitanism and the Sociology of Europe
Over de auteur
Maurice Roche is lecturer in sociology at the University of Sheffield, and teaches undergraduate modules on the Sociology of the EU, Leisure, Policy and Society, and the Sociology of Popular Culture, as well as postgraduate modules on Global Social Policy and International Childhood Studies.
He has authored and contributed to a number of titles, including Mega-Events and Modernity: Olympics and Expos in the Growth of Global Culture (Routledge, 2000), Europe and Cosmopolitanism (Liverpool University Press, 2007) and The Handbook of Nations and Nationalism (SAGE, 2006), as well as writing articles for journals such as Citizenship Studies, Time and Society and Cultural Policy.
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