Centre for European Studies
School of International Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University

M.Phil Course
 

Europe is a pluralistic society having multiplicity of linguistic, cultural, religious and regional diversity. It is a cultural and structural product of philosophy and ideals embedded in intellectual and social revolutions, institutions and processes that are distinctively European in nature. However, there are contending elements interspersing this unity in terms of diversity. Hence it would be significant to understand European socio-economic organization, cultural practices and social institutions as components of a single social system. This course aims to understand crystallization of salient features of social structure and the processes of social and cultural transformation, and issues and challenges of multiculturalism in contemporary Europe.

COURSE CONTENTS

1. Philosophical and Social Revolutions and Transition from Modernity to Post-Modernity

• Enlightenment
• Industrial Revolution, Urbanisation
• Rise of Capitalism and Democracy
  

2. Social Institutions in Europe

• Family and Marriage
• Social Stratification and Inequality
  

3. Religion and Secularisation in Europe
   

4. Multiculturalism in Contemporary Europe

• Migration and Diaspora
• Exclusion and Marginalisation
  

5. Europeanisation and Globalisation

Core Readings

Amin, Ash (2003), “Multiethnicity and the Idea of Europe”, Theory, Culture and Society 21/2: 1-24.

Beck, Ulrich and Grande, Edgar (2007) “Cosmopolitanism: Europe’s Way out of Crisis”, European Journal of Social Theory 10/1:67-85

Beck, Ulrich and Grande, Edgar (2007), Cosmopolitan Europe, Cambridge: Polity.

Calhoun, Craig (2003), “European Studies: Always Already There and Still in Formation”, Comparative European Politics 1:5-20.

Cavalla, Alessandro. (2005), “Social Sciences and European Society in the Making”, European Review, Vol. 13, No. 3, 327–335.

Crouch, Colin (1999), Social Change in Western Europe, London: Oxford University Press.

Delanty,Gerard and Chris Rumford, (1996), Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality, London:Macmillan.

Dunkerley, David et al. (2002), Changing Europe, London: Routledge

Outhwaite, William (2008), European Society, Cambridge: Polity Press.

Pagden, Anthony (ed) (2002), The Idea of Europe, Woodrow Wilson Center Series, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rogowski, Ralf and Turner, Charles (eds) (2006), The Shape of the New Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rumford, Chris (ed.) (2008), Sage Handbook of European Studies. London: Sage.

Sakwa, Richard and Stevens, Anne (eds.) (2006), Contemporary Europe. 2nd edn. Basingstock: Palgrave Macmillan.

Schulze, Max-S. (1999), Western Europe: Economic and Social Change since 1945, London: Longman.

Topic 1: Philosophical and Social Revolutions and Transition from Modernity to Post-Modernity

Halperin, Sandra (2006), War and Social Change in Modern Europe: The Great Transformation Revisited, Cambridge University Press.

Hartmut, K. (2004), The European Way: European Societies During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Berghahn Books.

Hobsbaum, Eric (1996), The Age of Revolution 1789-1848, Vintage Books.

------- The Age of Capital: 1848-1875, Vintage Books.

------- The Age of Empire: 1875-1914, Vintage Books.

Kumin, Beat (2009), The European World: An Introduction to Early Modern History, London: Routledge,

Therborn, G. (1995), European Modernity and Beyond: The Trajectory of European society 1945-2000, London: Sage.

Thomson, D. (1971), Europe since Napoleon, Penguin.

Treasure, G. (2003), The Making of Modern Europe 1648-1780, London: Routledge.

Topic 2: Social Institutions in Europe

* Family and Marriage

Hantrais, Linda (2004), Family Policy Matters: Responding to Family Change in Europe, Bristol: The Policy Press.

Kuijsten, A. C. (1996), “Changing Family Patterns in Europe: A Case of Divergence?”, European Journal of Population, 12 (2): 115-143.

Linda Hantrais, (1997), “Exploring Relationships between Social Policy and Changing Family Forms within the European Union”, European Journal of Population, Volume 13, Issue-4, 339- 379.

* Social Stratification and Inequality

Adnett N and Hardy, S. T. (2005), The European Social Model: Modernisation or Evolution? Northampton: Edward Elgar

Bailey, J. (ed) (1998), Social Europe, London: Longman.

Bauman, Zygmunt (2004), Europe: An Unfinished Adventure, Cambridge: Polity.

Gillingham, John (2006), Design for a New Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Grundy, Sue and Jamieson, Lynn (2007), “European Identities: From Absent-Minded Citizens to Passionate Europeans”, Sociology 41/4, August: 663-80.

Grundy,Sue and Lynn Jamieson (2005) ), ‘Are We All Europeans Now? Local National and Supranational Identities of Young Adults`, Sociological Research Online 10/3 <http://socresonline.org.uk/10/3/grundy.html>.

Heidenreich, Martin (2003), “Regional Inequalities in the Enlarged Europe”, Journal of European Social Policy 13/4: 313-33.

Heyns, Barbara. (2005), “Emerging Inequalities in Central and Eastern Europe”, Annual Review of Sociology, August Vol. 31: 163-197.

Scharpf, F.W. (2002), “The European Social Model: Coping With the Challenges of Diversity”, Journal of Common Market Studies, 40(4): 645-670.

Topic 3: Religion and Secularisation in Europe

Davie, Grace. (2000), Religion in Modern Europe: A Memory Mutates, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Greeley, A. M. (2004), Religion in Europe at the End of the Second Millennium: A Sociological Profile, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers.

King, M. L. and Rabil, Albert. (2007), Teaching Other Voices: Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Michalski, Krzysztof (2006), Religion in the New Europe, Central European University Press.

Sutton, J. and Bercken, William Peter van den (2003), Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Europe. Leuven: Peeters Publishers.

Timothy, Byrnes A. and Katzenstein, P. J. (2006), Religion in an Expanding Europe, New York: Cambridge University Press.

Topic 4: Multiculturalism in Contemporary Europe

Kivisto, Peter (2008), Multiculturalism in a Global Society: Volume 4 of 21st Century Sociology, John Wiley and Sons

Modood, Tariq (2007), Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea, Polity.

Parekh, Bhikhu C. (2002), Rethinking multiculturalism: cultural diversity and political theory, Harvard University Press.

Phillips, Anne (2009), Mullticulturalism without Culture, Princeton University Press.

Reitz, Jeffrey G. (et al) (2009), Multiculturalism and Social Cohesion: Potentials and Challenges of Diversity, Springer.

Steinberg, Shirley R. (2009), Diversity and Multiculturalism: A Reader, Peter Lang

Watson, C. W. (2002), Multiculturalism: Concepts in the social sciences Open University Press.

Wessendorf, Susanne (2010), The Multiculturalism Backlash: European Discourses, Policies and Practices, Taylor & Francis

Topic 5: Europeanisation and Globalisation

Delanty, Gerard and Rumford, Chris (2005), Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization, London: Routledge.

Giddens, Anthony (2007), Europe in the Global Age, Cambridge: Polity.

Graziano, Paolo. (2003), “Europeanization or Globalization?: A Framework for Empirical Research”, Global Social Policy. Vol. 3, No. 2, 173-194

Kierzkowski, Henryk. (ed) (2002), From Europeanization of the Globe to the Globalization of Europe, London: Palgrave.

Morgan, Glyn (2005), The Idea of a European Superstate: Public Justification and European Integration, Princeton: Princeton University Press.