The Routledge Handbook of European Sociology provides over forty original, groundbreaking state-of-the-art accounts, each expert contribution teasing out the distinctively European features of the sociological theme it explores. The Handbook is divided in four parts: intellectual and institutional settings, regional variations, thematic variations, and European concerns.

1. "Introduction" Part I: Intellectual and Institutional Settings 2. "Key Trends in European Social Thought" 3. "European Sociology: Its Size, Shape, and 'Excellence'" 4. "European Social Science as a Transnational Field of Research" 5. "Towards a European Society: What can European Sociology Tell Us?" 6. "The 'Linguistic Turn' and Continental Sociology: the Question of Agency and Structure" 7. "European Construction and Sociology" 8. "Europe and the Sociology of Modernity" Part II: Thematic variations 9. "European Sociologies and Social Theories of Work" 10. "Sociology of Religion in Europe" 11. "The Emergence of a European Social Movement Research Field" 12. "Is there a European Medical Sociology?" 13. "The Spatial Turn and the Sociology of Built Environment" 14. "The European Contribution to Environmental Sociology" 15. "Welfare State Studies in European Sociology" 16. "A European Sociology of Migration? Not Yet, Not Quite" 17. "Social Stratification Research in Europe" Part III: Regional variations 18. "Italian Sociology and European Sociology" 19. "Nordic Sociology" 20. "Sociology in the Netherlands" 21. "The French Contribution to European Sociology since 1945" 22. "Sociology in Germany (1949 to present)" 23. "Portuguese Sociology: A non Cesurial Perspective" 24. "Contemporary Sociology in Spain" 25. "The Late Ascent of the UK to a Sociological Great Power: A comment from the margins" 26. "No longer between East and West: Dialectics and paradoxes in Polish sociology " 27. "The Re-emergence of Sociology in Russia"

Sokratis Koniordos is Professor of Sociology at the University of Crete. His Main research areas: economic sociology, sociology of work, the social effects of the current crisis. He has published 16 volumes and several research articles.

Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens.