Overview
- Critically engages with processes of differentiation and social action in European politics
- Develops an action-oriented structural constructivist field approach towards understanding the nation-state and its ongoing transformations by using insights from the works of Pierre Bourdieu and Max Weber
- Explores the European Commission’s failed attempt to democractize European governance
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology (PSEPS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Politics of Transnational Integration
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Front Matter
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Reflexive Action and Knowledge Production
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Reflexive Political Sociology
- Action-Oriented Structural Constructivism and the European Union
- Social Action in European Politics
- Differentiation in European Politics
- Political Sociology and the European Union
- Nation-State and Contemporary European Politics
- Political Ontology of European Integration
- Pierre Bourdieu and European Politics
- Structural Constructivism and Media Studies
About this book
This book argues that contemporary European politics creates new forms of
transnational power that challenge the traditional parameters of the nation-state.
Kauppi identifies and critically explores the evolving dynamics between national
and transnational spaces, groups and knowledge, and suggests that European public
policies and transnational institutions like the European Parliament create new spaces,
types of knowledge and novel political practices.
Toward a Reflexive Political Sociology of the European Union is structured around
three parts. The first focuses on evolving transnational fields. The second explores the
changing role of academics and universities. The third section engages with the works
of Pierre Bourdieu on politics and the media. The issues discussed throughout the
book revolve around the challenges to the nation-state and of knowledge production
that is tied to it.
This book will be an invaluable resource to academics and researchers interested in
European politics, European Union studies and political sociology.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Niilo Kauppi is Research Professor at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and is Distinguished Professor at University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Toward a Reflexive Political Sociology of the European Union
Book Subtitle: Fields, Intellectuals and Politicians
Authors: Niilo Kauppi
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71002-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71001-3Published: 31 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89027-2Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71002-0Published: 17 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-6016
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 269
Topics: Political Sociology, Social Theory, Knowledge - Discourse, European Politics