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Wagner, Peter
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ICREA Research Professor at UB (Universitat de Barcelona). Social & Behavioural Sciences
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2006-2010, Professor of Sociology, U of Trento; 1999-2006, Professor of Social and Political Theory, European University Institute; 1996-2006, Professor of Sociology, U of Warwick (on leave 1999-2006); Visiting Professor at Université de Paris 8 (2011); Université catholique de Louvain-la-neuve (chaire Jacques Leclercq, 2009-10); U of Cape Town (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities, 2009-10); U of Bergen (2001); Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2001; 1998); U of California at Berkeley (1997; 1996); Fellow of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala; Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1990-91); Visiting Research Fellow, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris (1994) 1983-1995, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung; 1993, habilitation in sociology, Free U of Berlin; 1989, PhD in political science, Free U of Berlin.
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Research Interests
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Located in the areas of comparative historical and political sociology, social and political theory, and the sociology of the social sciences, my research is focused on the identification and comparative analysis of different forms of social and political modernity and of the historical trajectories of modern societies. Initially, I applied it in a comparative political sociology of European national societies. Subsequently, I analyzed the process of European integration by reviewing both the institutional transformations of European societies over the past two centuries and the transformations in the self-understanding of Europe. “Modernity” then does not appear as a single and unique model of social organization, but rather emerges as variable interpretations of basic human problématiques in the light of specific historical experiences. Currently, a key task of social analysis is the comparative analysis of plural forms of modernity in their global context.
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Key Words
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political sociology, social and political theory, comparative-historical sociology, European studies, sociology of the sciences
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