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Taking the contemporary debate about the status of political sociology as a starting point, the article presents some of the alternative views, and discusses the relationships between sociology and political science. It claims that, despite persistent controversies, looking into the research tradition of political sociology is a useful resource to grasp the identity of the sub-discipline. Accordingly, the author takes the relationship between state and society as the central issue that everywhere cuts across theoretical and methodological diversity. Finally, the text takes the nation-state as the most typical configuration of the relationship between state and society in modern history, and one that remains so in the present, despite the many historical and analytical challenges we observe today.

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction to the Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology -- 1. Age and generation -- 2. Alienation -- 3. Anarchism -- 4. Authoritarian and totalitarian regimes -- 5. Biopolitics -- 6. Bourdieu, Pierre -- 7. Bureaucracy -- 8. Capitalism -- 9. Citizenship -- 10. Civic engagement -- 11. Civic voluntarism -- 12. Civil disobedience -- 13. Civil society -- 14. Civil wars -- 15. Class -- 16. Class consciousness and class struggle -- 17. Class voting -- 18. Cleavages -- 19. Clientelism -- 20. Coalition formation -- 21. Collective action -- 22. Comparativehistorical sociology -- 23. Comparative political economy -- 24. Comparative political sociology -- 25. Conflict theory -- 26. Constructivism -- 27. Contentious politics -- 28. Corporatism and neo-corporatism -- 29. Decommodification -- 30. Democracy -- 31. Democratization -- 32. De Tocqueville, Alexis -- 33. Discrimination -- 34. Durkheim, Emile -- 35. Economic voting -- 36. Emotions -- 37. Empowerment -- 38. Environmentalism -- 39. Ethnicity -- 40. Ethnocentrism -- 41. Europeanization -- 42. Euroscepticism -- 43. Exploitation -- 44. Extreme right -- 45. Factionalism -- 46. Feminism -- 47. Field theory -- 48. Foucault, Michel -- 49. Framing/frame analysis -- 50. Frankfurt School -- 51. Functionalism -- 52. Gender -- 53. Globalization -- 54. Governance -- 55. Governmentality -- 56. Gramsci, Antonio -- 57. Group consciousness -- 58. Identity -- 59. Ideology -- 60. Inequality (political) -- 61. Institutionalism -- 62. Interest groups -- 63. Intersectionality -- 64. Left/right -- 65. Legitimacy -- 66. Liberalism -- 67. Libertarianism and authoritarianism -- 68. Lifestyle politics -- 69. Marx, Karl -- 70. Marxism and neo-Marxism -- 71. Mass media -- 72. Memory (collective) -- 73. Michels, Robert -- 74. The micro-macro link -- 75. Migration.