Description:
This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative state of the art review of the current research on social transformation in Europe. Drawing together leading scholars from sociology, social policy and politics, it offers a snapshot of current scholarship as well as signposting several avenues for future research.
Review Quotes:
"The epoch of neo-liberalism since the late 1970s has been a period of fundamental social transformations leading to shifts in all areas of society. The editors of this path-breaking handbook have assembled a team of scholars, who examine the social, institutional, spatial and temporal dimensions of social transformation as experienced in Eastern Europe and the European Union, and link these both to social theory and to global processes of transformation. This is an important book that could help reframe the social sciences for the 21st century."
Stephen Castles, University of Sydney, Australia.
"A comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of transformation studies, reaching out from post-communist "transitology" to structural changes of the EU and global capitalism, including both macro, meso, and micro level research. A must-read for specialists and students as well as general readers interested in the epochal change the world is undergoing."
Pekka Sulkunen, University of Helsinki, Finland.