In this presentation, it is attempted to answer empirically to the theoretical problem of determining what resources and powers that enhance the formation of collective action are distributed by social agents. Are there equal conditions in the exercise of citizenship rights in the European societies? Through the international survey "European Social Survey" (2008), the research developed seeks to understand the differences in collective action in Europe from the study of social classes, at national-comparative and transnational levels. The multidimensionality and interrelation of development, economic resources, education and social capital of agents and social classes are a decisive factor in the formation of collective action practices in the European social space. Collective action in modern societies represents a hierarchical social resource that varies depending on the social position held by agents in the social structures, in which social constraints are mainly imposed on the lower classes, within each country and in the whole of Europe, reinforcing their condition of inferiority in the power relations of modernity. To the contradictions and perverse effects of the current European liberal democracies, anchoring in the persistence of social inequalities, accrue the detachments and the political exclusions in the spheres of civil societies in Europe.

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collective action,transnational classes

• Sociologia - Ciências Sociais