Sociology of European Integration - JSB456

• Title: Sociology of European Integration
• Czech title: Sociologie evropské integrace
• Guaranteed by: Department of Sociology (23-KS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2014 to 2016
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 7
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. Dr. Paulus Albertus Blokker
• Teacher(s): doc. Dr. Paulus Albertus Blokker
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Syllabus

Last update: Simon Smith, M.A., Ph.D. (30.01.2021)

Weekly Programme

1.       Introduction: how do we study Europe sociologically?

2.       Europe as institutional field versus Europe as social space and process

3.       Multiple sociologies of European integration: a. field theory, b. sociology of knowledge, c. social movement theory, d. communication and discourse studies, e. sociology of critique

4.       Grammars of justification: apologetic and critical discourses on Europe

5.       Hierarchy, market or network: what kind of governance regime(s) is the European Union?

6.       The integration of a European public sphere

7.       Mobilising Europe’s civic resources for problem-solving, re-legitimisation and autonomy

8.       Public participation in European integration

9.       Case study 1: enrolling statistics, measures and surveys in European integration

10.     Case study 2: Brexit

11.     Case study 3: grassroots collective action and radical European utopias