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With an entire discipline devoted to political science, what is distinctive about political sociology? This concise book explains what a sociological perspective brings to our understanding of the emergence, reproduction, and transformation of different forms of political order. Crucially, political sociology expands the field of view to the politics that happen in other social settings ? in the family, at work, in civic associations ? as well as the ways in which social attributes such as class, religion, age, race, and gender shape patterns of political participation and the distribution of political power. 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. Elisabeth S. Clemens is William Rainey Harper Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago

The language of human rights is the most prominent 'people-centred' language of global justice today. This textbook looks at how human rights are constructed at local, national, international and transnational levels and considers commonalities and differences around the world. Through discussions of key debates in the interdisciplinary study of human rights, the book develops its themes by considering examples of human rights advocacy in international organisations, national states and local grassroots movements. Case studies relating to specific organisations and institutions illustrate how human rights are being used to address structural injustices: imperialist geopolitics, authoritarianism and corruption, inequalities created by 'freeing' markets, dangers faced by transnational migrants as a result of the securitization of borders, and violence against women.

Cover -- Contents -- Series Note -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- PART I - The Conceptual Aspects -- 1 - Caste and Class: Some Aspects of Continuity and Change -- 2 - Hierarchical and Competitive Inequality -- 3 - Sociological Issues in the Analysis of Social Movements in Independent India -- 4 - Movements of Protest, Construction of Centres and State Formation in India and Europe -- 5 - The Indian State in Crisis? Nationalism and Nation-Building -- PART II - Institutions -- 6 - The Panchayati Raj and the Democratic Polity -- 7 - Trade Unions in India-A Sociological Approach -- 8 - Civil Society, State and Democracy: Lessons for India -- 9 - Democracy and Leadership: The Gendered Voice in Politics -- PART III - Processes -- 10 - Meaning and Process of Tribal Integration in a Democratic Society -- 11 - Landholding Pattern and Power Relations in a Mysore Village -- 12 - The Mid-Term Poll in a Village in Outer Delhi Constituency -- 13 - Nation-State and Open Systems of Stratification: Making Room for the 'Politics of Commitment' -- 14 - Understanding the Modern Dalit Movement -- 15 - Assertive Identities, Indigeneity, and the Politics of Recognition as a Tribe: The Bhutias, the Lepchas and the Limbus of Sikkim -- PART IV - Methodological Issues -- 16 - Relevance of the Marxist Approach to the Study ofIndian Society -- 17 - Co-operatives and Caste in Maharashtra: A Case Study -- 18 - Power Elite in Rural India: Some Questions and Clarifications -- 19 Education and the Emerging Patterns of Political Orientations: A Sociological Analysis -- 20 - Studying Communal Riots in India: Some Methodological Issues -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors.

Elections in capitalist democracies in Western have changed recently to such an extent that one is inclined to look upon election results as crucial evidence for Alain Touraine's argument in favour of a transformation from a Durkheimian ("structure") to a Weberian world ("actor") in his La fin des societies (2013). The central aspect of party systems in Western Europe is not social structure today but now voter volatility, which can be measured allowing for an empirical application of Touraine's thesis.

As the union government moves towards creation of a separate state of Telangana in India, this article attempts to present the history and political sociology of the movement that has raised and registered this demand on the national consciousness. The focus here is on the manner in which the issue has been articulated by the concerned intelligentsia. The article critically evaluates the various positions taken by the intelligentsia on the matter. It underlines the predominant role being played by intellectuals in demanding a separate state of Telangana within the Indian federal set-up. It also highlights the socio-political and intellectual contours of vision that have been envisaged for ultimate creation of the state.

This WZB Discussion Paper documents in detail the representative claims analysis conducted within the WZB bridging project "The Political Sociology of Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism". It serves as methodological background for interpreting the dataset and findings based upon it. The paper includes the aims of this empirical mod-ule in relation to the project, the sampling strategy, the codebook with descriptive statistics from the database, and the results of the intercoder reliability test. The annexes include examples of coded claims and a guide to the database, both in its more qualitative and in its fully quantitative forms. (author's abstract)

This book builds a theoretical approach to the intractable problem of theory/practice in international relations (IR) and develops tools to study how theory and practice 'hang together' in international security. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's political sociology, the book argues that theory and practice take part in struggles over basic understandings (doxa) in international fields through what the book calls doxic battles. In these battles e.g. scientific facts, military hardware and social networks are mobilised as weapons in a fight for recognition. NATO's transformation and fight for surviv.

This WZB Discussion Paper documents in detail the representative claims analysis conducted within the WZB bridging project 'The Political Sociology of Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism'. It serves as methodological background for interpreting the dataset and findings based upon it. The paper includes the aims of this empirical mod-ule in relation to the project, the sampling strategy, the codebook with descriptive statistics from the database, and the results of the intercoder reliability test. The annexes include examples of coded claims and a guide to the database, both in its more qualitative and in its fully quantitative forms. ; Dieses WZB Diskussionspapier befasst sich mit der im Rahmen des Brückenprojekts "Die politische Soziologie des Kosmopolitismus und Kommunitarismus" durchgeführ-ten representative claims analyis. Es dient als methodologische Grundlage für die Interpretation der hierbei entstandenen Datensammlung sowie den aus ihr folgenden Erkenntnissen. Darüber hinaus beinhaltet das Papier die theoretische Ziele mit dem der representative claims analyse durchgeführt werden ist, im Bezug zu das breitere Forschungsprojekt, Angaben zur Stichprobenziehung, das Codebuch mitsamt deskrip-tiver Statistiken aus der Datenbank, sowie die Testergebnisse der Intercoder-Reliabilität. Im Anhang befinden sich Beispiele kodierter Claims und eine Anleitung zur Verwendung der Datensammlung sowohl in qualitativer als auch quantitativer Form.