Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

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1. The Social Meaning of Children and Fertility Change in Europe

   Edited by Anne Lise Ellingsaeter, An-Magritt Jensen, Merete Lie

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   Low fertility in Europe has given rise to the notion of a ‘fertility crisis’. This book shifts the attention from fertility decline to why people do have children, asking what children mean to them. It investigates what role children play in how young adults plan their lives, and why and how young...

   Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Road to Social Europe

   A Contemporary Approach to Political Cultures and Diversity in Europe

   By Jean-Claude Barbier

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   In the wake of the Greek and Irish crises, and at a moment when solidarity between states is hotly debated on a daily basis at EU level, it is important to understand how ‘solidarity’ can happen at all. The Road to Social Europe reviews the development of political cultural processes since the...

   Published July 4th 2012 by Routledge
3. Europe and Asia beyond East and West

   Edited by Gerard Delanty

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   This major new book tackles key questions on Europe in the context of shifting parameters of East and West. The contributors - sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers and historians - show, from a variety of different perspectives, that the conventional equation of Europe with the West must be...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
4. Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society

   Edited by Patrick Baert, Sokratis Koniordos, Giovanna Procacci, Carlo Ruzza

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   This book provides readers – students, researchers, academics, policy-makers, activists and interested non-specialists – with a sophisticated understanding of contemporary discussion, analysis and theorizing of issues pertaining to conflict, citizenship and civil society. It does so through...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
5. Social Class in Europe

   An introduction to the European Socio-economic Classification

   Edited by David Rose, Eric Harrison

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   This timely volume introduces a new social class schema, the European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC), which has been specifically developed and tested for use in EU comparative research. Social Class in Europe aims to introduce researchers to the new classification and its research potential....

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
6. Mobilizing Regions, Mobilizing Europe

   Expert Knowledge and Scientific Planning in European Regional Development

   By Sebastian M. Buettner

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   Regional development strategies are becoming more similar all around Europe, even though regional differences are more pronounced than ever and many European regions have become more autonomous actors. This thesis of a peculiar standardized diversification of sub-national space in the modern...

   Published February 8th 2012 by Routledge
7. Muslims in 21st Century Europe

   Structural and Cultural Perspectives

   Edited by Anna Triandafyllidou

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   Muslims in 21st Century Europe explores the interaction between native majorities and Muslim minorities in various European countries with a view to highlighting different paths of integration of immigrant and native Muslims. Starting with a critical overview of the institutionalisation of Islam...

   Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge
8. Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads

   Edited by Aili Aarelaid-Tart, Li Bennich-Björkman

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   This book brings together life stories from five generations of Balts, living through the diverse and recurring transformations of the twentieth century: occupations, war, independence, totalitarianism, and democratic rule and market economy. The twentieth century history of the Baltic...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
9. Internationalisation of Social Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe

   The ‘Catching Up’ -- A Myth or a Strategy?

   Edited by Ilona Pálné Kovács, Dagmar Kutsar

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   Internationalisation of Social Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe explores the way in which social sciences, in comparison with other sciences in Europe, have been divided by the political orders of West and East. As part of the field of science policies in Europe, this book contributes to the...

   Published April 13th 2010 by Routledge
10. European Societies

    Fusion or Fission?

    Edited by Thomas Boje, Bart Van Steenbergen, Sylvia Walby

    Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

    Are the recent developments in Europe bringing countries together or pulling them apart? The leading experts in this book (including Sheila Allen, Marlis Buchmann, Piotr Sztompka, and Patrick Ziltener) cover a wide range of subjects, including the move towards political democracy and market economy...

    Published November 30th 2007 by Routledge