The Europeanisation of Societies?

How should we understand Europe as a social space? In what ways are a European social structure and a European identity and culture emerging, and in what ways are we seeing the renationalization and localization of social meanings and practices? This section invites paper, and especially, panel proposals that explore how and the extent to which individual cognitive, residential, professional and interpersonal biographies, individual and organizational networks, organizational structures and strategies in the political, economic, and social domains, and civil and political mobilization are transcending national boundaries and becoming more European, being rolled back, or being reinterpreted and renegotiated. We are particularly interested in how these changes are received and debated in national settings. We seek proposals from disciplines as diverse as demography (e.g. migration, family formation and dissolution), economic sociology (e.g. markets, corporate power and organization), stratification (e.g. social mobility, occupational structures, social classes and status groups), political sociology, political economy, social movements, and the sociology of culture (e.g. consumption, taste, values, identifications, inter-personal networks). Finally, we especially welcome theoretically and methodologically rigorous and innovative contributions (e.g. longitudinal, experimental) that explore causal connections between some of the transformations listed above and the role that European Union institutions, laws, and policies, as well as European-wide or global events and processes that help bringing them about.