Social Europe

ISBN-13: 9780582316096 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 296 str.

Joe Bailey

Opis

A comprehensive account of basic formations such as industrial structure, social stratification and gender, with a comparative analysis of how Western Europe compares on issues such as education, crime, and policing. In the LONGMAN SOCIOLOGY series.

Spis treści

List of figures and tables
Series Editor's Preface
Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Acknowledgements
List of contributors

1. Social Europe: unity and diversity - an introduction - Joe Bailey

Part One: Changing Social Structures
2. Social stratification in Europe - Howard H.Davis
3. Industrial structure and performance: common challenges- diverse experiences - Christel Lane
4. Europe's ageing population- demographic trends - John Simons
5. Gender and Europe: cultural and structural impediments to change - Angela Glasner
6. Race and ethnicity in Europen -John Rex

Part Two: Responding to Social Institutions
7. A crazy quilt: education, training and social change in Europe - Lynne Chisholm
8. Trade unions in Europe - Ian Procter
9. Crime and cross-border policing in Europe; Social Europe - Michael Levi and Mike Maguire
10. From AIDS to Alzheimer's: policy and politics in setting new health agendas - Bridget Towers
11. God and Caesar: religion in a rapidly changing Europe - Grace Davie
12. Leisure :jeux sans frontieres or major European industry? - Stan Clark

Index

O autorze

Joe Bailey