ABSTRACT
The marvelous collection Sociology in Europe, edited by Brigitta Nedelmann and Piotre Sztomka (1993), presents some of the core positions in an important discussion of European construction and European sociology that took place in the 1990s. A new Europe and a new sociology, a European sociology, seemed within reach: “let’s do it!” the writers urged. Twenty years later, the hopes and the enthusiasm of most of the contributions to this book are surprising. To be sure, some contributors insisted on the continuity of differences, lags, and specificities in Europeans sociologies, on the intellectual and the national levels as well as on the linguistic level.
