
European Modernity and Beyond
The Trajectory of European Societies, 1945-2000
- 416 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Combining theoretical depth with factual analysis, Göran Therborn addresses the questions that underpin an understanding of the nature of European modernity, including: To what extent is the period 1945-2000 producing fundamental change and what are the areas of continuity? Have the societies of Europe become more similar to others on the globe or more distinctively European? What are the prospects of Europe after decades of postwar change and the end of the Cold War?
Issues covered include the division of paid and unpaid labour, patterns of rights in different social spheres, the development of mass consumption, the evolution of risks, the spatial range of economic and cultural change, collective memory and identities, the geography of happiness, and modes of collective action. The author relates these issues to the two great social steering projects of the period - socialism in the East and the European Union in the West.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables, Figures and Maps
- Part I - Theory and History
- 1 - Structure, Culture and Modernity
- 2 - Europe in Modern History
- Part II - Structurations
- 3 - The Boundaries and the Peopling of Europe
- 4 - Divisions of Labour
- 5 - Rights to Claim: Membership and Welfare
- 6 - Rights to Act - Politics, Sex and Property
- 7 - Means: 'The Glorious Years'
- 8 - Risks and Opportunities
- Part III - Spacing
- 9 - Cities and States
- 10 - The European Economic Space
- 11 - Europe's Cultural Space
- Part IV - Enculturations
- 12 - Issues of Identity
- 13 - Horizons of Knowledge and TImes of Belief
- 14 - Values of Contemporary Modernity
- Part V - Collective Action and Social Steering
- 15 - Civil Societies and Collective Action
- 16 - Eastern Socialism and Western Union: Two Processes of Social Steering
- Part IV - Modernity and Europe: Six Questions and Their Answers
- Envoi: Europe and the Rest of Modernity
- Bibliography
- Index