ISBN:
0761940715
,
0761940723
,
9780761940715
,
9780761940722
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 282 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Exploring the Sociology of Europe : An Analysis of the European Social Complex
DDC:
301.094
Keywords:
Social structure
;
Europe Politics and government
;
Europe Social conditions
Abstract:
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 societyThis is a discerning and relevant book providing an informed analysis of European society which i
Description / Table of Contents:
COVER ; CONTENTS; LIST OF ACRONYMS; 1 - APPROACHING EUROPEAN SOCIETY; 2 - THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL COMPLEX: EUROPE AS NETWORK AND EMPIRE?; PART 1 - The Development of the European Social Complex: Civilisations and Nation-states; 3 - ORIGINS OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL COMPLEX: PRE-MODERNITY, COMMONALITIES AND EUROPE AS A 'CIVILISATION'; 4 - DEVELOPING THE MODERN EUROPEAN COMPLEX: NATION-STATES, CITIZENS AND DIFFERENCE; PART 2 - The Modern European Complex and Social Change: A Europe of Nations, Warfare States and Welfare States; 5 - THE MODERN EUROPEAN COMPLEX: WAR AND PEACE
Description / Table of Contents:
6 - THE MODERN EUROPEAN COMPLEX, WELFARE AND CITIZENSHIPPART 3 - The European Complexin the 21st Century: Contemporary Social Change and European Welfare Capitalism; 7 - CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL CHANGE AND EUROPEAN WELFARE CAPITALISM: THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBALISATION AND POST-INDUSTRIALISM; 8 - THE EU AND THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL COMPLEX:THE EUROPEANISATION OF WELFARE STATES AND WELFARE CAPITALISM?; 9 - THE EUROPEAN CIVIL COMPLEX: COSMOPOLITANISM AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF EUROPE; BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES; AUTHOR AND NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
http://sk.sagepub.com/books/exploring-the-sociology-of-europe
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