“…Sociological insights are them needed to understand a) the “meaning” of European integration beyond rational design and purposeful action, b) the constraining and/or enabling factors of integration as a
teleological project that stretches from market building to polity building and society building, c) the dynamics and mechanisms of integration and disintegration, of binding and un-binding, of internal differentiation and external adaptation that demarcate the conflictive field of the emerging European society."…”
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