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This book focusses on how historical dynamics and specific actors have shaped the diverse outlook and everyday practice of welfare in and across Europe. Based on the concept that narratives about welfare in Europe are intricately interconnected with various practices of “caring” for oneself and others, the authors take a praxeological approach to analyze specific care activities, the relevant players, and underlying narratives about welfare in Europe in the fields of housing, family provision, social insurance, child care, handling disability, dealing with poverty, and the transition of socialist welfare to the post 1989 world. Welfare is conceptualized as a field of changing relations o...
In order to better understand processes of European integration, this book offers a new perspective that compares past experiences of change to current transitional moments at the European level. It addresses key questions about European society, EU integration and social change to reveal the social construction of emergent polities and societies.
The numerous and far-reaching socio-political transformations that have taken place on the European continent since the mid-20th century have stipulated the emergence of new approaches and research fields in the social sciences. One of these is the development of a Sociology of Europeanization. This textbook provides an overview of its major topics, concepts, and research approaches. Each of the 14 chapters of this textbook introduces one particular topic of the Sociology of Europeanization – ranging from major conceptual considerations to an exploration of the numerous spatial, cultural, economic, political, judicial, and socio-structural implications of Europeanization. Hence, this book ...
This book examines the relationship of belonging and social policy in a historical-comparative perspective reconstructing individual arguments in favour of or opposed to the expansion of solidarities.
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