Koniordos Sokratis M. - Routledge Handbook of European Sociology

The Routledge Handbook of European Sociology explores the main aspects of the work and scholarship of European sociologists during the last 60 years (19502010), 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 positive, what does this really mean?

Divided into three parts, the Handbook investigates:

intellectual and institutional settings;

thematic variations; and

regional variations.

The Handbook provides a set of state-of-the-art accounts that break new ground, each contribution teasing out the distinctively European features of the sociological theme it explores. It will be of interest to students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities.

Sokratis Koniordos is Professor of Sociology at the University of Crete. His main research areas are economic sociology, sociology of work, and the social effects of the current crisis. He has published 16 volumes and several research articles. Key publications include Towards a Sociology of Artisans: Continuities and Discontinuities in Comparative Perspective (Ashgate 2001), Networks, Trust and Social Capital: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations from Europe (Ashgate 2005), and Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society (with Baert, P., Procacci, G. and Ruzza, C. (eds), Routledge 2010).

Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens. His main fields of research are the sociological and historical analysis of the techno-organisational backstage of financial markets and the dynamics of complex projects. He has also done work on the social history of ideas, and the social theory of urban and geographical space. His latest publication in English is the edited volume Financial Markets and Organizational Technologies: System Architectures, Practices and Risks in the Era of Deregulation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

A highly welcome addition to the already cluttered world of handbooks, companions and encyclopedias devoted to sociology. This handbook is unique in shifting away from entries written largely by, and of primary interest to, Americans. It accords European sociologies and sociologists their rightful place at the center of what is now a global discipline. However, it also makes it clear that no single part of the world can encompass the fields great and growing richness and diversity.

George Ritzer, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland

Routledge Handbook of European Sociology

Edited by Sokratis Koniordos and Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis

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Routledge handbook of European sociology / edited by Sokratis

Koniordos and Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis.

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1. SociologyEurope. I. Koniordos, Sokratis M. II. Kyrtsis,

Alexandros-Andreas, 1951

HM477.E85R68 2014

301.094dc23

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ISBN: 978-0-415-58880-5 (hbk)
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Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis and Sokratis Koniordos

PART I
Intellectual and institutional settings

Nigel Dodd

Christian Fleck and Barbara Hnig

Johan Heilbron

William Outhwaite

Vassilios Romanos

Jan Spurk

Peter Wagner

PART II
Thematic variations

Finn Bowring and Ralph Fevre

Roberto Cipriani

Mario Diani and Ondrej Csa

Nicolas Henckes and Isabelle Baszanger

Martina Lw and Silke Steets

Michael Redclift and Graham Woodgate

Chiara Saraceno

Giuseppe Sciortino

John Scott

PART III
Regional variations

Alberta Andreotti and David Benassi

Patrik Aspers, Jukka Gronow, Lars Bo Kaspersen, Lars Mjset, Gubjrg Linda Rafnsdttir and Aino Sinnemki

Jos de Haan

Michelle Dobr and Aldo Haesler

Joachim Fischer

Jos Lus Garcia, Joo Carlos Graa, Helena Mateus Jernimo and Rafael Marques

Salvador Giner and Manuel Prez Yruela

Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis

Janusz Mucha and ukasz Krzyowski

Vadim Radaev

Alberta Andreotti is Research fellow in economic sociology at the University of Milan-Bicocca and she is Associate member of the program Cities are back in Town. based at Sciences-Po, Paris. Her research activities focus on social capital and social networks, urban poverty and local welfare systems, cities and middle classes. She published a book on social capital, chapters in edited volumes and several articles in international reviews (AJEAS, IJURR, Urban Studies, Global Networks).

Patrik Aspers (b. 1970) is Professor of Sociology and chairs the Department of Sociology at Uppsala University. He is the author of numerous articles and several book, including Orderly Fashion, A Sociology of Markets (Princeton UP 2010), Markets (Polity Press 2011), The Worth of Goods (edited with Jens Beckert, Oxford University Press 2011), and Markets in Fashion, A Phenomenological Approach ([2001] London, Routledge 2006).

Isabelle Baszanger is a sociologist and Emeritus Research Director at CERMES3/CNRS. Her primary research areas are historical and contemporary sociology of medical work at the limits of medicine (especially around pain, chronic illness, medical decisions at the end of treatments in oncology and palliative care), and qualitative research methodologies. She is the author of Inventing Pain Medicine: From the Laboratory to the Clinic. (Rutgers University Press, 1998, first published in French, Le Seuil, 1995). She co-edited