Clemens, Elisabeth S.
What is Political Sociology?
Political sociology grapples with these issues across an enormous range of historical and geographic settings, from the intimate relations that constitute family politics to the geo-political scales of war and trade. It requires an analytic toolkit that includes concepts of power, social closure, civil society, and modes of political action. Using these central concepts, What is Political Sociology? discusses the major forms of political order (states, empires, and nation-states), processes of regime formation and revolution, the social bases for political participation, policy formation as well as feedbacks, and the possibilities for new forms of transnational politics. In sum, the book offers an insightful introduction to this core perspective on social life.
Keywords: politics; sociopolitical; political economy; Weber; power; state; empire; nation-state; social movements; contentious politics; protest; revolution; social policy, Social Policy, Political Science Special Topics, Social Policy, Political Science Special Topics
- Author(s)
- Clemens, Elisabeth S.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- What is Sociology?
- Page amount
- 168 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9780745691640
- Printed ISBN
- 9780745691602