The Sociology of the European Union
An Agenda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8043683 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Favell (0000-0001-5801-6847, Aarhus University), Virginie Guiraudon (Ceraps - Lille Center for Politics, Lille 2 University, France) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 550-576 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Union Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-1165 • E-ISSN: 1741-2757 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1465116509346384 |
| OpenAlex | W2034011805 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 55 |
| References cited | 77 |
We seek to shape an agenda for the growing interest in using sociological approaches to study the European Union (EU). In order to deepen and broaden the Europeanization agenda, the article points to how sociology can help reveal the ‘social bases’ of European integration (i.e. processes of European Union), as well as identify effects on European society that might reconnect EU studies with key comparative political economy debates about the European ‘varieties of capitalism’ and its models of economy and society. Unfortunately, however, ‘sociological’ approaches towards the EU have mostly been wrongly equated with the ‘constructivist turn’ in EU studies, and its characteristic preference for ‘soft’ qualitative discursive methods and meta-theory. We argue that, rather than turning to culture, identity or social theory for inspiration, an empirical sociological approach to the EU would reintroduce social structural questions of class, inequality, networks and mobility, as well as link up with existing approaches to public opinion, mobilization and claims-making in the political sociology of the EU. To conclude, the article identifies some exemplary studies along these lines
European studies · Sociological theory · European Union Policy and Governance · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Social Policy and Reform Studies
The Bureaucratic Competency
Europeanisation in Teacher Education
Approches anthropologiques et ethnographiques de l’Union européenne (1993-…)
Sociology and the European Union
Identity, Identification, Habitus
Micropolitique d’un être collectif. Variation sur l’institution européenne
The social structure of european inequality
OECD as a site of coproduction
Moving from EU-centrisms
Europeanization Through the European Women’s Lobby
EU economic governance and austerity
Travelling 'the Caledonian way
Professionalization or amateurism
Construire un espace français de recherches sociologiques sur l’Europe
Building a European Asylum Regime in Discordance
Les effets de l'européanisation des politiques d'immigration et d'asile
Transcended power of the state
Intra‐European Student Mobility and European Identity
Europeanization of citizens vis-á-vis regional politicians
The current members of the European Round Table
Tensions within Eurocracy? A socio-morphological view
Does European integration theory need sociology
Using Europe
Euroscepticism and Neighbourhood Peace
European Outliers? Rethinking Europeanisation and Euroscepticism in Britain and Denmark
Horizontal Europeanisation in Contextual Perspective
Education, Europeanization and Europe’s social integration. An introduction
Towards a Sociology of the EU
Towards operationalisation of ‘Europeanisation’ at the sub-national level
The Uniting of Europe by Transclusion
A matter of scope
A Sociology of Knowledge Approach to European Integration
Who Governs Europe? Public Versus Private Regulation of Sustainability of Fish Feeds
Power, politics, and the development of political science in the Americas
Coproducing European Integration Studies
Degrees of Inclusion
For and against European Union expansion
The great implications of spatialisation
Building Europe on a Weak Field
Building and managing the European Commission’s position for trilogue negotiations
The origin of EU authority in criminal matters
Sociological Approaches in EU Studies
Another Theory is Possible
Feeling European
Reflexivity and the Construction of the International Object
Beyond Constructivism
Bourdieu Hits Brussels
Increasing fluidity of identifications in the context of individualisation
Cross-border friendships and collective European identity
Inequality and anti-globalization backlash by political parties
Governmentality, political field or public sphere? Theoretical alternatives in the political sociology of the EU
A project ‘doomed to succeed’? Informational asymmetries, euroscepticism, and threats to the locomotive of integration
Opposition to Enlargement among “New” and “Old” Europeans
British Immigrants in France
Les enquêtés disent-ils toujours la même chose
The uniting of Europe
Interests and Integration
The Europeanisation of National Administrations
European Modernity and Beyond
The Logic of Regional Integration
Restructuring Europe
Pioneers of European Integration
The Social Construction of Europe
Eurostars and Eurocities
Rethinking Europe
European Defence Policy
Conceptualizing the Domestic Impact of Europe
Sociologists, economists and democracy
Uniting Of Europe
The European Rescue of the Nation State
Theories of European Integration
Varieties of Capitalism
Handbook of European Societies
Die Sozialstruktur Europas
Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies
Social Theory of International Politics
The European Union and the Public Sphere
Citizens of Europe
Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration
A World of Regions
« En être ou pas »
French Political Science and European Integration
Distance Matters
International student migration and the European ‘Year Abroad’
In defence of intra‐disciplinarity
Introduction
The Frontier of National Sovereignty
La Commission européenne
The frontier of national sovereignty
Several Roads Lead to International Norms, but Few Via International Socialization
La vie quotidienne au Parlement europeen
Élites européennes en formation. Les étudiants du «Collège de Bruges» et leurs études
Transnational Identities
French Political Science and European Integration
Is something rotten in the state of Denmark?' Constructivism and European integration
An American/European divide in European integration studies
The constitution of a European immigration policy domain
The Europeanization of Welfare - The Domestic Impact of Intra-European Social Security
What do ‘Europeans’ Think? Analyses of the European Union's Current Crisis by European Elites
The New Face of East–West Migration in Europe
International Institutions and Socialization in Europe
The Political Basis of Support for European Integration
The Democratizing Dynamics of a European Public Sphere
L'espace sociopolitique européen, un champ encore en friche
How to Make a Market
Constructing Polities and Markets
Globalization or Europeanization? Evidence on the European Economy Since 1980
A world of regions
The Constructive Turn in International Relations Theory
European Union Institutions and French Political Careers
History meets Politics
Calculation, Community and Cues
Undivided Loyalties
Security and Immigration
Europe
European Integration and Income Inequality
Sur les dynamiques sociologiques et politiques de l'identification de l'Europe
Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms
Is There a Transnational Business Community
Is the National State the Appropriate Geographical Unit for Class Analysis
Methodological nationalism and beyond
Beyond 'identity
| Unique citing works | 55 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,24 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 55 |