This special issue aims to contribute to the young academic discipline of European Sociology and focusses its attention towards the transnational (re-)structuration of social spaces and social fields.

Power and Counter Power in Europe. The Transnational Structuring of Social Spaces and Social Fields.- EASO—Support Offi ce or Asylum Authority? Boundary Disputes in the European Field of Asylum Administration.- Benennungsmacht und Vokabular der EU-Governance. Zur symbolischen Macht der europäischen Forschungsförderung.- Academic Autonomy Beyond the Nation-State. The Social Sciences and Humanities in the European Research Council.- The Restructuring of Wage-Setting Fields between Transnational Competition and Coordination.- Lohnentwicklungen im öffentlichen Sektor. Ein Brennpunkt europäischer Austeritätspolitik? Die Euroskeptizismus-Spirale: EU-Berichterstattung und Medien-Negativität.- European Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Comparing Transnational Activism of Civic Organisations in Germany and Greece.

This special issue aims to contribute to the young academic discipline of European Sociology and focusses its attention towards the transnational (re-)structuration of social spaces and social fields. It includes three contributions that address the European social space (wage inequality, European news coverage and transnational solidarity) and four contributions that deal with social fields (asylum administration, industrial relations, European research funding, and the academic field). In theoretical terms this special issue employs a concept of power relations that draws on Pierre Bourdieu and sociological neo-institutionalism.

Dr. Susanne Pernicka is Professor of Economics and Organizational Sociology at the Johannes Kepler University Linz.

Dr. Christian Lahusenis Professor of Sociology at the University of Siegen.