Handbook of European Societies: Social Transformations in the 21st Century
Language: English
Published by Springer, 2010
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- Handbook of European Societies: Social Transformations in the 21st Century
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- Immerfall, Stefan
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2010
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- English
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- 1441981284
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- SOCIOLOGY
Societal trends in Europe have never been studied systematically. This book rectifies that. It analyzes current social patterns in Europe, covering major topics of social concern and sociological relevance such as Consumption, Power Structure and Sexuality.
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About the Author
Stefan Immerfall is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Education at Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany. He graduated from Ruhr University in Germany, and received his doctorate and his second doctorate from the University of Passau, Germany. Among his publications are Safeguarding German-American Relations in the New Century: Understanding and Accepting Mutual Differences (with Hermann Kurthen and Antonio Menendez), Europa - politisches Einigungswerk und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung (2006), The New Politics of the Right: Neo-Populist Parties and Movements in Established Democracies (with Hans-Georg Betz, 1988), Territoriality in the Globalizing Society (1998), and Die westeuropäischen Gesellschaften im Vergleich (with Stefan Hradil, 1997). Besides European integration, his research topics include political economy and political sociology.
Göran Therborn is the Director of Research and Professor and Chair Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Prior to that, he was the Co-Director of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences for 10 years, and Professor of Sociology at Göteborg University in Sweden, and Professor of Political Science at the Catholic University in The Netherlands. His writings include the following books: Science Class and Society (l976), What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules? (l978), The Ideology of Power of and the Power of Ideology (l980), Why Some Peoples Are More Unemployed than Others (l986), European Modernity and Beyond (l995), Between Sex and Power. Family in the World, l900-2000 (2004), Inequalities of the World (2006), and From Marxism to Postmarixsm? (2009) His works have been translated into more than twenty languages. Currently, he is pursuing comparative global studies, and in particular, a project on the capital cities of the world.
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