Divenire europeo, divenire europei: cambiamenti sociali e ricerche d’identità in Europa

The major part of the social sciences scholars consider to become europeans an outdated question, but there has been not a real social movement for the construction of Europe. After the Second World War, there were a lot of changes in Europe and the statal institutions has been stabilized, even if citizen are indifferent. Meanwhile, the cosmopolitism is affirmed, based on four promises: peace, democracy, justice and wellness, individual freedom. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties, this process recalled the birth of a new European post-national society. However, today the disenchantment prevails. Being European means to live in a conflicting and dramatic situation. The promises did not mantain and strong contradictions remain also about the central power of the states, the political and social uncertainties of the citizenship, a weak European identity in spite of the mobility and the decline of the national identities. However, to become European is a political project that can be realised with a new idea of European citizenship, in opposition to the traditional administrative concept of it