Sociology in Europe: In Search of Identity
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Project -- 2 The Contributions -- 2.1 Part I: Is There a European Sociology? -- 2.2 Part II: Some National Traditions -- 2.3 Part III: Two Views from Afar -- References -- Part I: Is there a European Sociology? -- European Sociology: The Identity Lost? -- 1 On the Identity of European Sociology in the Classical Age -- 2 Classical European Sociology: A Multidimensional Programme -- 3 Has European Sociology Preserved its Identity? -- References -- The Contribution of German Social Theory to European Sociology -- 1 US Hegemony after the Second World War: The Americanisation of European Social Theory -- 2 The Revitalisation of European Social Theory -- 2.1 British Social Theory: Class, Solidarity, and Conflict -- 2.2 French Social Theory: The Power of Structure -- 3 German Social Theory: The Dialectics of Modernity -- 3.1 Kant, Hegel, and Marx -- 3.2 Simmel and Weber -- 3.3 Critical Theory: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas -- 3.4 Systems' Theory: Luhmann -- 3.5 The Critical Turn of Systems' Theory -- 3.6 The Iron Cage of Systems' Theory: Is there any Escape? -- 4 The Dialectics of Progress: The Good and the Dangerous Life in Modern Society -- 5 Between Interrelated Diversity and Anglo-American Cultural Imperialism -- References -- Towards a European Sociology -- 1 Has there Ever Been a European Sociology? -- 2 Sociology and Modernity -- 3 Sociology in Modern Times -- 4 Present Trends -- 5 Tracing the Future of Sociology in its History -- References -- Part II: Some National Traditions -- The Changing British Role in European Sociology -- 1 Britain versus Europe or Sociology as a Foreign Agent -- 2 The Anglo-European Rapprochement in Sociology -- 3 Universalism and the Two Continents -- 4 The New European Sociology -- References.