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1 online resource (467 pages) |
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Routledge International Handbooks |
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Routledge international handbooks.
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1.Introduction / Sokratis Koniordos -- pt. I Intellectual and institutional settings -- 2.Key trends in European social thought / Nigel Dodd -- 3.European sociology: its size, shape, and ̀excellence' / Barbara Honig -- 4.European social science as a transnational field of research / Johan Heilbron -- 5.Towards a European society: what can European sociology tell us? / William Outhwaite -- 6.The ̀linguistic turn' and continental sociology: the question of agency and structure / Vassilios Romanos -- 7.European construction and sociology / Jan Spurk -- 8.Europe and the sociology of modernity / Peter Wagner -- pt. II Thematic variations -- 9.European sociologies and social theories of work / Ralph Fevre -- 10.Sociology of religion in Europe / Roberto Cipriani -- 11.The emergence of a European social movement research field / Ondrej Cisar -- 12.Is there a European medical sociology? / Isabelle Baszanger -- 13.The spatial turn and the sociology of built environment / Silke Steets -- 14.The European contribution to environmental sociology / Graham Woodgate -- 15.Welfare state studies in European sociology / Chiara Saraceno -- 16.A European sociology of migration? Not yet, not quite / Giuseppe Sciortino -- 17.Social stratification research in Europe / John Scott -- pt. III Regional variations -- 18.Italian sociology and European sociology / David Benassi -- 19.Nordic sociology / Aino Sinnemaki -- 20.Sociology in the Netherlands / Jos de Haan -- 21.The French contribution to European sociology since 1945 / Aldo Haesler -- 22.Sociology in Germany (1949 to present) / Joachim Fischer -- 23.Portuguese sociology: a non-cesurial perspective / Rafael Marques -- 24.Contemporary sociology in Spain / Manuel Perez Yruela -- 25.The late ascent of the UK to a sociological great power: a comment from the margins / Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis -- 26.No longer between East and West: dialectics and paradoxes in Polish sociology / Lukasz Krzyzowski -- 27.The re-emergence of sociology in Russia / Vadim Radaev |
Summary |
The Routledge Handbook of European Sociology explores the main aspects of the work and scholarship of European sociologists during the last sixty years (1950-2010), a period that has shaped the methods and identity of the sociological craft. European social theory has produced a vast constellation of theoretical landscapes with a far reaching impact. At the same time there has been diversity and fragmentation, the influence of American sociology, and the effect of social practice and transformations. The guiding question is: does European Sociology really exist today, and if the answer is posi |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Subject |
Sociology -- Europe
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Sociologie.
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Sociologues.
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Théorie sociale.
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Sociology
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Sociologie -- Europe.
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Europe.
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Europe
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handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Kyrtsis, Alexandros
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Kyrtsēs, Alexandros-Andreas, 1951-
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ISBN |
9781136711213 |
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113671121X |
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1322101841 |
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9781322101842 |
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9780203814956 |
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0203814959 |
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