Description
Book SynopsisThe book provides key insights in experiencing lives and attitudes of the increasing number of people who reside beyond national boundaries and strategically create their life-paths. It is a brief but comprehensive introduction to the latest theoretical developments combining issues of reflexivity and habitus resulting in unique empirical and practical implications. Intended for the readers who are looking for a combination of scholarly insights and everyday life stories of the people living beyond the national constraints, no matter whether they are interested in contemporary social trends and their impact to individuals, ethnographic research, globalization trends or the future visions of the European Union.
Table of ContentsContents: Transnational social fields – The EU – European identifications – Intentional deliberations – Social embeddednes – Habitus – Reflexivity – Instrumental identifications – Semantics – European civil servants – Linking ethnographic insights with contemporary social theory combining reflexivity and habitus – Addressing the instrumental nature of identifications resulting from the participation in the transnational social sphere – Reflecting transformed structural semantics and the tremendous changes of the individuals’ positions within the social context.
