Thesis supervisor: Borbála Göncz
Location of studies (in Hungarian): Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem Abbreviation of location of studies: BCE
Description of the research topic:
In their 2009 article Favell and Guiraudon draw attention to the lack of the sociological approach in studies on European integration – mainly in the focus of political science or international relations up until now. There is an absence of the traditional sociological perspectives, sociological subjects or empirical studies while there exists an European structure, a regional integration partly arising from the European integration process.
The aim of this research stream is to study an eventually rising European social space, its manifestation and dynamics, the way it is related to the European integration process and the way it is structured by the European Union. Analyses might involve comparison over time and between countries using large scale international surveys. Possible subjects include identification, transnationalism, values and value changes, territorial mobility, cross-border social movements, European public sphere among others. There is a possibility to join an ongoing research on European elite’s and public’s attitudes towards the EU allowing for both comparison over time and between countries.
Literature
Bartolini, Stefano (2007): Restructuring Europe: centre formation, system building and political structuring between the nation-state and the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Delanty, G. (1995) Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality (New York: St.Martin's Press)
Favell, Adrian – Guiraudon, Virginie (Eds.) (2011): Sociology of the European Union. Palgrave Macmillan
Favell, Adrian – Guiraudon, Virginie (2009): „The Sociology of the European Union. An Agenda”. European Union Politics. Volume 10 (4): 550–576
Immerfall, Stefan – Therborn, Göran (Eds.) (2010): Handbook of European Societies. Social Transformations in the 21st Century. Springer
Therborn, G. (1995) European Modernity and Beyond: The Trajectory of European Societies, 1945-2000 (London: Sage)
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