William Outhwaite

William Outhwaite is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University, UK . His publications include the following: Understanding Social Life: The Method Called Verstehen, 1975; 2nd edn 1986; Concept Formation in Social Science, 1983; New Philosophies of Social Science: Realism, Hermeneutics and Critical Theory, 1987; Habermas. A Critical Introduction (Cambridge: Polity, 1994, 2nd edn. 2009), The Future of Society (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), European Society (Cambridge: Polity, 2008), ‘Legality and Legitimacy in the European Union’, in Chris Thornhill and Samantha Ashenden (eds), Legality and Legitimacy: Normative and Sociological Approaches (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2010), pp. 279-290, Critical Theory and Contemporary Europe (New York: Continuum, 2012), Social Theory (London: Profile, 2015), Europe since 1989 (London: Routledge, 2016), Contemporary Europe (London: Routledge, 2017), Transregional Europe (Bingley: Emerald, 2020).