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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. (2003). Is there, or can there be, a ‘European Society’?. In: Katenhusen, I., Lamping, W. (eds) Demokratien in Europa. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-09584-2_4
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