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This open access collection is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative
analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to
the current political and social crises, from citizens' initiatives
to networks of cooperation among civil society actors. The book
analyses existing informal groups at the grassroots, furthering
transnational solidarity in three thematic areas: disability,
unemployment and immigration. Contributions assess how civic groups
respond to the various crises affecting Europe, especially the
economic and refugee crises, presenting new findings from a
systematic comparative study conducted in eight European countries
(Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, and
the UK). The research will be of interest to scholars, students,
journalists, policy-makers and activists interested in civil
society, social movements, charitable actions, altruism and
solidarity, as well as European studies and the socio-economic
challenges of current European crises.
This open access volume provides evidence-based knowledge on
European solidarity and citizen responses in times of crisis. Does
the crisis of European integration translate into a crisis of
European solidarity, and if yes, what are the manifestations at the
level of individual citizens? How strongly is solidarity rooted at
the individual level, both in terms of attitudes and practices? And
which driving factors and mechanisms contribute to the reproduction
and/or corrosion of solidarity in times of crisis? Using findings
from the EU Horizon 2020 funded research project "European paths to
transnational solidarity at times of crisis: Conditions, forms,
role-models and policy responses" (TransSOL), the books addresses
these questions and provides cross-national comparisons of eight
European countries - Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy,
Poland, Switzerland, and the UK. It will appeal to students,
scholars and policymakers interested in the Eurocrisis, politics
and sociology.
This book examines the âEuropean refugee crisisâ, offering an
in-depth comparative analysis of how public attitudes towards
refugees and humanitarian dispositions are shaped by political news
coverage. An international team of authors address the role of the
media in contesting solidarity towards refugees from a variety of
disciplinary perspectives. Focusing on the public sphere, the book
follows the assumption that solidarity is a social value, political
concept and legal principle that is discursively constructed in
public contentions. The analysis refers systematically and
comparatively to eight European countries, namely, Denmark, France,
Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Treatment of data is also original in the way it deals with
variations of public spheres by combining a news media
claims-making analysis with a social media reception analysis. In
particular, the book highlights the prominent role of the mass
media in shaping national and transnational solidarity, while
exploring the readiness of the mass media to extend thick
conceptions of solidarity to non-members. It proposes a research
design for the comparative analysis of online news reception and
considers the innovative potential of this method in relation to
established public opinion research. The book is of particular
interest for scholars who are interested in the fields of European
solidarity, migration and refugees, contentious politics, while
providing an approach that talks to scholars of journalism and
political communication studies, as well as digital journalism and
online news reception. The Open Access version of this book,
available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available
under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives
4.0 license.
Lobbying is an integral part of the political reality of the
European Union and a highly competitive and dynamic field of
interest groups. This book takes a systematic look at lobbyists in
order to broaden our understanding of the staff entrusted with the
responsibility of influencing European politics. Who are the
European lobbyists? What are their professional backgrounds, career
patterns, practices and beliefs? The study uses a sociological
framework to explore the professionalisation and professionalism of
the field across national proveniences, policy fields and interest
groups, and develops a systematic analysis that considers three
different dimensions: occupational patterns, shared knowledge and
common convictions . Based on original research that combines
in-depth interviews with survey data, European Lobbying
demonstrates that European lobbying is a firmly established and
highly professionalised metier. In an organisational field
characterised by growth, pluralisation and increasing competition,
the professional staff contributes to the homogenisation of
European lobbying and the marginalisation of other,
non-professionalised forms of interest representation. It will
therefore appeal to scholars and students of sociology and politics
with interest in European studies, EU politics and the sociology of
the professions.
This book examines the everyday-life patterns of young adults under
circumstances of vulnerability and precariousness. Its main focus
is on the web of social relations that structure the everyday life
of young people, for instance by providing resources and tools of
solving problems, exerting pressures and voicing expectations, and
shaping the person's self-conception, identity, and well-being.
Based on more than 120 in-depth interviews with young long-term
unemployed in six European countries, this book puts social support
and the young jobless' webs of social relations at center stage. It
expands knowledge by raising awareness of the multidimensionality
and complexity of the social conditions of young jobless, drawing,
on the one hand, a more differentiated picture of unemployment,
vulnerability and social exclusion amongst young people and, on the
other hand, taking a close look at the social reality of young
adults' unemployment in different European cities.
The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003046653, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license. This book unveils the significant impact
of the European integration process on the political thinking of
European citizens. With close attention to the interrelation
between social and political divisions, it shows that an integrated
Europe promotes consensus but also propagates growing dissent among
its citizens, with both objective inequalities and the subjective
perception of these inequalities fuelling political dissent. Based
on original data sets developed from two EU-funded projects across
eight and nine European countries, the volume demonstrates the
important role played by the social structure of European social
space in conditioning political attitudes and preferences. It
shows, in particular, that Europeans are highly sensitive to
unequal living conditions between European countries, thus
affecting their political support of national politics and the
European Union. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology
and politics with interests in Europe and the European Union,
European integration and political sociology.
Citizens' Solidarity in Europe systematically dissects the
manifestations of solidarity buried beneath the official policies
and measures of public authority in Europe. This critical book
provides a comparative analysis of eight European countries,
illustrating the scale of support for cross-national solidarity
from both individuals and civic organizations. Contributors offer
comprehensive and original data, analysing opinion polls,
organizational fields and media content, to unpack the thoughts,
opinions and attitudes of civil society. Chapters highlight the
detrimental factors that tend to inhibit or annihilate solidarity,
and those that are beneficial for the nurturing of solidarity.
Offering innovative ideas and fresh data, this book will be crucial
reading for researchers and students of sociology and political
science, particularly those focused on European and comparative
studies. Journalists, NGOs, public authorities and politicians will
also benefit from its unique insight into public opinion.
Contributors include: S. Baglioni, V.K. Brandle, M. Cinalli, O.
Eisele, V. Federico, M. Grasso, M. Kousis, C. Lahusen, A. Loukakis,
T. Montgomery, M. Paschou, H.-J. Trenz
Young People and Long-Term Unemployment examines the consequences
of long-term unemployment for the personal, social, and political
lives of young adults aged 18-34 across four European cities:
Cologne (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), Lyon (France), and Turin
(Italy). Adopting a multidimensional theoretical framework aiming
to bring together insights based on the contextual (macro),
organizational (meso), and individual (micro) levels, and combining
quantitative and qualitative data and analyses, it reaches a number
of important conclusions. First, our study shows that the
experience of long-term unemployment has a negative impact on
different dimensions of young people's lives. When compared to
employed youth, unemployed youth are less satisfied with their
lives, more isolated, and less independent financially. Second,
however, there are important variations across the four cities.
This means that, in spite of widespread retrenchments, in some
places the welfare state still acts as a buffer against
unemployment. Third, although young unemployed people participate
in politics equally if not slightly more than employed youth, the
young unemployed are often disconnected from politics. This is so
even when they have important grievances to express in the face of
high youth unemployment, precarious working conditions, and grim
future perspectives on the labor market. This book will be useful
for scholars interested in unemployment politics and youth
politics, researchers and teachers in political science, sociology,
and social psychology.
The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003046653, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license. This book unveils the significant impact
of the European integration process on the political thinking of
European citizens. With close attention to the interrelation
between social and political divisions, it shows that an integrated
Europe promotes consensus but also propagates growing dissent among
its citizens, with both objective inequalities and the subjective
perception of these inequalities fuelling political dissent. Based
on original data sets developed from two EU-funded projects across
eight and nine European countries, the volume demonstrates the
important role played by the social structure of European social
space in conditioning political attitudes and preferences. It
shows, in particular, that Europeans are highly sensitive to
unequal living conditions between European countries, thus
affecting their political support of national politics and the
European Union. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology
and politics with interests in Europe and the European Union,
European integration and political sociology.
Political Altruism? deals with participation in political
activities aimed at defending the rights of other individuals and
groups, such as asylum seekers, immigrant workers, populations of
Third World countries, and people whose fundamental human rights
are being harmed. Solidarity movements have become an important
collective actor in contemporary western societies, yet virtually
no scholarly work up to now has addressed them theoretically and
empirically. This volume shows why political altruism is better
seen as the result of social interactions rather than of a
supposedly altruistic outburst. Contributors address the
theoretical questions at the core of social movement theory, using
country-specific studies including France, Germany, Great Britain,
Switzerland, and the US, while also examining the growing
internationalization of solidarity movements, their outcomes and
consequences.
This book examines the 'European refugee crisis', offering an
in-depth comparative analysis of how public attitudes towards
refugees and humanitarian dispositions are shaped by political news
coverage. An international team of authors address the role of the
media in contesting solidarity towards refugees from a variety of
disciplinary perspectives. Focusing on the public sphere, the book
follows the assumption that solidarity is a social value, political
concept and legal principle that is discursively constructed in
public contentions. The analysis refers systematically and
comparatively to eight European countries, namely, Denmark, France,
Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Treatment of data is also original in the way it deals with
variations of public spheres by combining a news media
claims-making analysis with a social media reception analysis. In
particular, the book highlights the prominent role of the mass
media in shaping national and transnational solidarity, while
exploring the readiness of the mass media to extend thick
conceptions of solidarity to non-members. It proposes a research
design for the comparative analysis of online news reception and
considers the innovative potential of this method in relation to
established public opinion research. The book is of particular
interest for scholars who are interested in the fields of European
solidarity, migration and refugees, contentious politics, while
providing an approach that talks to scholars of journalism and
political communication studies, as well as digital journalism and
online news reception. The Open Access version of this book,
available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available
under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives
4.0 license.
Young People and Long-Term Unemployment examines the consequences
of long-term unemployment for the personal, social, and political
lives of young adults aged 18-34 across four European cities:
Cologne (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), Lyon (France), and Turin
(Italy). Adopting a multidimensional theoretical framework aiming
to bring together insights based on the contextual (macro),
organizational (meso), and individual (micro) levels, and combining
quantitative and qualitative data and analyses, it reaches a number
of important conclusions. First, our study shows that the
experience of long-term unemployment has a negative impact on
different dimensions of young people's lives. When compared to
employed youth, unemployed youth are less satisfied with their
lives, more isolated, and less independent financially. Second,
however, there are important variations across the four cities.
This means that, in spite of widespread retrenchments, in some
places the welfare state still acts as a buffer against
unemployment. Third, although young unemployed people participate
in politics equally if not slightly more than employed youth, the
young unemployed are often disconnected from politics. This is so
even when they have important grievances to express in the face of
high youth unemployment, precarious working conditions, and grim
future perspectives on the labor market. This book will be useful
for scholars interested in unemployment politics and youth
politics, researchers and teachers in political science, sociology,
and social psychology.
This open access collection is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative
analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to
the current political and social crises, from citizens' initiatives
to networks of cooperation among civil society actors. The book
analyses existing informal groups at the grassroots, furthering
transnational solidarity in three thematic areas: disability,
unemployment and immigration. Contributions assess how civic groups
respond to the various crises affecting Europe, especially the
economic and refugee crises, presenting new findings from a
systematic comparative study conducted in eight European countries
(Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, and
the UK). The research will be of interest to scholars, students,
journalists, policy-makers and activists interested in civil
society, social movements, charitable actions, altruism and
solidarity, as well as European studies and the socio-economic
challenges of current European crises.
This open access volume provides evidence-based knowledge on
European solidarity and citizen responses in times of crisis. Does
the crisis of European integration translate into a crisis of
European solidarity, and if yes, what are the manifestations at the
level of individual citizens? How strongly is solidarity rooted at
the individual level, both in terms of attitudes and practices? And
which driving factors and mechanisms contribute to the reproduction
and/or corrosion of solidarity in times of crisis? Using findings
from the EU Horizon 2020 funded research project "European paths to
transnational solidarity at times of crisis: Conditions, forms,
role-models and policy responses" (TransSOL), the books addresses
these questions and provides cross-national comparisons of eight
European countries - Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy,
Poland, Switzerland, and the UK. It will appeal to students,
scholars and policymakers interested in the Eurocrisis, politics
and sociology.
Ein Lehrwerk, das dazu verhilft, verschiedene Gesellschaftstheorien
zu erschliessen."
Die Beschaftigung mit den "KLassikern" der Soziologie ist ein
wesentliches Element jedes Soziologiestudiums. Hier ist nun die
didaktisch herauragend gestaltete und zugleich motivierende
Einfuhrung."
Die Beitr ge dieses Sammelbandes verdeutlichten, dass Korruption
ein eminent wichtiges und spannendes soziologisches Thema
darstellt. Dies gilt nicht nur deshalb, weil wir es mit einem
tagespolitisch aktuellen und gesellschaftlich relevanten Ph nomen
zu tun haben. Die Beitr ge zeigen dar ber hinaus, dass Korruption
auch ein strukturelles Element unserer Gesellschaften ist, das
bislang vernachl ssig wurde, aber nun auch selbst erkenntnisf
rdernd ist. Wenn Korruption ein Strukturelement unserer
Gesellschaften ist, so werden wir durch ein Studium dieses Ph
nomens neue Einblicke in unsere Gesellschaften erhalten - wenn man
so will: Einblicke in deren dunklen Seiten.
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