Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of editors -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- OPENING ARTICLE -- 1 'Europe' as issues of sociology -- PART I Social exclusion and European integration -- 2 The revitalization of Western Europe and the politics of the 'social dimension' -- 3 European integration: disparate dynamics of bureaucratic control and communicative participation -- 4 Gender inequalities in European societies today -- 5 The undocumented outsider class: illegal immigrants in Dutch society -- PART II Citizenship and gender -- 6 The role of social movements in the project of civil society: the case of the women's movement -- 7 Women and democratization: some notes on recent changes in Hungary -- 8 Non-standard employment, citizenship and social exclusion in Europe -- PART III Nationalism and ethnicity -- 9 Multiculturalism and political integration in European cities -- 10 Nationalism, national identity and citizenship in the new Europe -- 11 Nationalism: ethnicity and gender -- 12 The Balkan tragedy: a universal or a particular issue? -- PART IV Transition and transformation in Central and Eastern Europe -- 13 The cultural core of post-communist transformations -- 14 The rise of managerialism: the 'new' class after the fall of communism -- 15 Second thoughts on the transformation in Eastern and Central Europe -- PART V Conclusion -- 16 European sociologists between economic globalization and cultural fragmentation -- Index.