Exploring the sociology of Europe : an analysis of the European social complex / Maurice Roche.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roche, Maurice.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social structure--Europe.

Social structure.

Europe--Social conditions.

Europe.

Europe--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 282 p.)

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : SAGE, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Timely and engaging, this book maps out and develops the emerging field of the sociology of Europe.

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780761940715

0761940715

9781283879361

1283879360

9781849204460

1849204462

OCLC:

534871873