What is Political Sociology?

Political sociology explores the emergence, reproduction, and transformation of political order, focusing on social attributes and social settings. It requires an analytic toolkit of power, identities, inequalities, social closure, civil society, and modes of political action, and discusses major forms of political order, regime formation and revolution, social bases for political participation, policy formation, feedbacks, social movements, and social change.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 17 May 2024
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Political sociology is a discipline that examines the emergence, reproduction, and transformation of different forms of political order. It expands the field of view to include the politics that occur in other social settings, such as the family, workplace, and 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 requires an analytic toolkit that includes concepts of power, identities and inequalities, social closure, civil society, and modes of political action. It discusses the major forms of political order, processes of regime formation and revolution, the social bases for political participation, policy formation and feedback, social movements and social change, and the possibilities for new forms of digital and transnational politics. This updated edition of What is Political Sociology? offers an insightful introduction to this core perspective on social life.

Weight: 272g
Dimension: 216 x 139 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781509561902
Edition number: 2 ed