Exploring the Sociology of Europe

Maurice Roche is lecturer in sociology at the University of Sheffield, and teaches undergraduate modules on the Sociology of the EU, Leisure, Policy and Society, and the Sociology of Popular Culture, as well as postgraduate modules on Global Social Policy and International Childhood Studies.He has authored and contributed to a number of titles, including Mega-Events and Modernity: Olympics and Expos in the Growth of Global Culture (Routledge, 2000), Europe and Cosmopolitanism (Liverpool University Press, 2007) and The Handbook of Nations and Nationalism (SAGE, 2006), as well as writing articles for journals such as Citizenship Studies, Time and Society and Cultural Policy.

• Approaching European SocietyThe European Social Complex: Europe as Network and Empire?PART ONE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL COMPLEX: CIVILIZATIONS AND NATION STATESOrigins of the European Social Complex: Pre-Modernity, Commonalities and Europe as a ′Civilization′Developing the Modern European Complex: Nation States, Citizens and DifferencePART TWO: THE MODERN EUROPEAN COMPLEX AND SOCIAL CHANGE: A EUROPE OF NATIONS, WARFARE STATES AND WELFARE STATESThe Modern European Complex, War and PeaceThe Modern European Complex, Welfare and CitizenshipPART THREE: THE EUROPEAN COMPLEX IN THE 21ST CENTURY: CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL CHANGE AND EUROPEAN WELFARE CAPITALISMContemporary Social Change and European Welfare Capitalism: The Challenges of Globalization and Post-IndustrialismThe European Union and the European Social Complex: The Europeanization of Welfare States and Welfare Capitalism?The European Civil Complex: Cosmopolitanism and the Sociology of Europe

′This is a major and much needed sociological analysis of Europe. Roche captures very well the emerging shape of European society in all its complexity. It is an immensely readable book and will undoubtedly be a standard work of referenceGerard DelantyProfessor of Sociology and Social & Political Thought, University of Sussex′Maurice Roche has made an arresting case for taking the sociology of Europe seriously. In a lucid and penetrating book he both invites scholarly debate with his arguments and provides an exemplary starting-point for a new generation of studentsProfessor Philip SchlesingerDirector, Centre for Cultural Policy Research, University of Glasgow