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Is there, or can there be, a “European Society” ? (2001)

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Curiously enough, it is not easy to find social scientists who seem to know – and are ready to explain – what a ‘society’ is. Yet it seems possible to put together a number of constituent notions that most authors, more or less implicitly, refer to when using the term. Among those notions, I submit, are the following.

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Offe, C. (2019). Is there, or can there be, a “European Society” ? (2001). In: Staatskapazität und Europäische Integration. Ausgewählte Schriften von Claus Offe, vol 5. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-22267-3_12

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