Ebook: Citizenship, Europe and Change
Author: Paul Close (auth.)
- Tags: Political Sociology, European Union Politics, Human Rights, Sociology general, Migration, Political Science
- Year: 1995
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Citizenship, Europe and Change is about the implications of the evolution of the European Union and the emergence of European supra-citizenship for the people of Europe. It addresses the way in which these implications are crucially mediated by inequalities according to social class, age- generation, race-ethnicity and sex-gender. An analytical framework is presented in terms of which European society, processes and change are decisively shaped within a hierarchy of political communities and conflicts, and driven by fundamental societal contradictions. Attention is paid to conceptual and theoretical issues, and there is a critical examination of the impact of social policy, motivated by a commitment to European integration and supra-citizenship in so far as these things benefit the people of Europe, especially the disadvantaged and excluded.