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Analyzing Integration

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This chapter proposes some elements for a structural constructivist conception of integration. The author understands integration as a key element in differentiation and stratification processes, more specifically of professional specialization and the formation of a variety of political, cultural and social hierarchies and spaces. He argues that this perspective provides us with a more informative picture of IR and regional integration that challenges intergovernmentalist, neofunctionalist and social constructivist accounts. These are based on sociologically weakly developed conceptions of agency, the state and power. In the mainstream literature, agency is often conceived of as institutional agency, the state and power being objectified in materialized forms. States exist and act ‘out there’ as relatively homogeneous and unitary, quasiphysical entities.

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Kauppi, N. (2018). Analyzing Integration. In: Toward a Reflexive Political Sociology of the European Union. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71002-0_3

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