Although a thriving social science literature in citizenship has emerged in the past two
decades, to date there exists neither a sociology of rights nor a sociology of human rights …

Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban
Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing …

The question 'what is citizenship?'is not an easy one to answer in any definitive way. This is
partly because it incorporates a number of different elements, reflecting two major political …

Introduction overshadowed by the debates between liberalism and socialism. But it has
become once more a focus of interest and discussion since the apparently sweeping victory …

In recent decades, local welfare systems have been emerging in many Western countries as
a consequence of bottom–up and top–down transformative pressures. Local welfare …

Simon Susen examines the impact of the'postmodern turn'on the contemporary social
sciences. On the basis of an innovative five-dimensional approach, this study provides a …

A significant addition to the growing body of literature on citizenship, this wide-ranging
overview focuses on the importance, and changing nature, of citizenship. It introduces the …

Taking account of the political, economic and cultural changes that have impacted on social
work over recent years, this book explores the challenges and presents the realities of …

This book deals with ongoing processes of European cooperation and integration,
processes that may have a potential to change the political organization of Europe. Based …

Bisweilen ist es ein Indiz für die allgemeine Bedeutung eines theoretischen Begriffs, dass er
umstritten ist. Für den sozial-und kulturwissenschaftlichen Diskurs über Identität gilt dieser …