Political Sociology

Political Sociology

Political Sociology is the Study of Socio-Political Phenomena

Sociology Books 2008

Political sociologists study every socio-political phenomenon peculiar to our times, circumstances, fact, experience, occurrence, happening, event, incident and episode:

The political activities of social classes, racial and ethnic groups, genders, generations, elites and masses,
The political activities of gays and other groups like religious groups,
The political activities of terrorists and their motivation, strategy and agenda,
The ideologies that motivate political action,
The influence of the internet, the advances in communication and globalization. The political impact of the internet encompasses a number of issues: free access, technological determinism, encryption, commodification, intellectual property, the public sphere, decentralization, anarchy, propaganda, activism, terrorism, gender and ethnicity.
The impact of social forces on social policy concerned with every area of human action and welfare.

POLITICAL CULTURE
This page will introduce you to a number of aspects of political culture. Of interest here are the many ways in which members of a society acquire and pass along their attitudes and values about the political system. The particular values that hold sway, as well as the relative influence and methods of these agents, vary across societies to produce fairly distinctive cultures and political systems. Agents of political socialization play a fundamental role in this transmission of values that creates subgroups, hierarchies, and power relationships within any society. - polisci.nelson.com/intropc.html

Race, Ethnicity, and Politics - This web site of the American Political Science Association is designed to serve students and professors interested in political research on U.S. minority groups, especially, African-American, Asian-American, Latino, and Native-American peoples. This site will be of interest to sociologists as well. - http://www.apsanet.org/~rep/

Journal of Political and Military Sociology - The JPMS considers a variety of articles with diverse methodological and theoretical approaches. Politics and the established institutions are broadly defined to include not only the more established institutions within a given state and society but also those phenomena and political processes which are often outside the boundaries of the established order. - http://www.jpms.niu.edu/

Asanet Political Sociology section to promote research and professional activities related to a sociological understanding of politics. - http://www.asanet.org/sections/politic.html

POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY - SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET Political Man In this book, Lipset explains the conditions which promote democracy, anti-democratic tendencies (working and middle class authoritarianism), and electoral tendencies - http://www.spc.uchicago.edu/ssr1/PRELIMS/Political/pomisc2.html

Rueschemeyer, Dietrich, Evelyne Huber Stephens, and John Stephens. 1992. Capitalist Development and Democracy.

Anderson, Benedict. 1983. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso.

Tarrow, Sidney. 1994. Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action and Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press. Bibliography.

Skocpol, Theda. 1992. Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Quadagno, Jill. 1994. The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty.

William A. Gamson. Talking Politics

Sidney Tarrow. Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action and Politics

Peter Evans. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation

Alan Wolfe. Whose Keepers? Social Science and Moral Obligation

Abrahamsson, Bengt Military Professionalization and Political Power, London: Sage Publications, 1972.

Adelman, Jonathon R. Communist Armies in Politics, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1982. Bibliography.

Bienen, Henry. & Morell, David. (eds.) Political Participation under Military Regimes, Beverly Hills, CA & London: Sage Publications, 1976.

Danopoulos, C.P. & Watson, C. (eds) The Political Role of the Military: An International Handbook, London: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Huntington, S. The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations, Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1957.

Huntington, S. Changing Patterns of Military Politics, New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, Inc. 1962.

Janowitz, M. The Professional Soldier: A Social and Political Portrait, London: Macmillan, 1960.

Kelleher, C.M. Political-Military Systems: Comparative Perspectives, London: Sage, 1974. Bibliography.

Nordlinger, Eric A. Soldiers in Politics: Military Coups and Governments, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1977.

Perlmutter, Amos, The Military and Politics in Modern Times: on Professionals, Praetorians, and Revolutionary Soldiers, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1977.

Perlmutter, Amos. & Bennet, Valerie Plave (eds.) The Political Influence of the Military: a Comparative Reader, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1980.

Kelleher, Catherine McArdle. (ed.) Political-Military Systems: Comparative Perspectives, Beverley Hills, CA & London: Sage Publication, 1974.

Porter, Bruce D. War and the Rise of the State: the Military Foundations of Modern Politics, New York: Free Press 1994.

Pye, Lucian W. Armies in the Process of Political Modernization, Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for International Studies, 1959.

Anderson, Perry. Lineages of the Absolutist State. London: Verso, 1979, chs. 1 and 2 (pp. 15-59).

Bell, Daniel. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society. New York: Basic Books, 1973, ch. 6 (pp. 339-68).

Block, Fred. 'The Ruling Class Does Not Rule.' In Revising State Theory, ed. Fred Block. Phildadlphia: Temple University Press, 1988.

Comaroff, John L. 'Of Totemism and Ethnicity: Consciousness, Practice, and the Signs of Inequality.' Ethnos 52 (1987):302-23.

Dahl, Robert. Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City. New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1961, chs. 1, 8, 19, 24, 27, 28 (pp. 1-10, 89-103, 223-28, 270-75, 305- 28).

Downs, Anthony. An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Row, 1957, ch. 8 (pp. 114-41).

Elias, Norbert. Power and Civility. Vol. 2, The Civilizing Process. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982, 'Introduction' (pp. 3-12) and Part Two, I-III, V-VI (pp. 229-58, 270-300).

Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books, 1979, Part 1.1 (pp. 3-31), Part 3.3 (pp. 195-228).

Inglehart, Ronald. Culture Shift. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980, pp. 15-83, 371-92. Bibliography.

Jessop, Bob. 'Recent Theories of the Capitalist State.' Cambridge Journal of Economics 1:4(1977). (Also in Jessop, State Theory: Putting States in Their Place, Universita Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990.)

Klingman, Hans-Dieter, Richard I. Hofferbert, Ian Budge. Parties, Politics, an Democracy. Boulder CO: Westview, 1994 (pp. 2, 246-53). Bibliography.

Lipset, Seymour M Political Man .. Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981 (pp. 332-54, 459-75, 503-15).
Continental Divide. Routledge, 1990, chs. 1, 2 (pp. 1-41).

Mann, Michael. The Sources of Social Power, vol. 1. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986, ch. 1 'Societies as Organized Power Networks' (pp. 1-33).

Offe, Claus. 'Challenging the Boundaries of Institutional Politics: Social Movements since the 1960s.' In Challenging the Boundaries of the Political, ed. Charles S. Maier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, pp. 63-106.

Offe, Claus, and Volker Ronge. 'Theses on the Theory of the State.' In Contradictions of the Welfard State, ed. John Keane. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, pp. 119-29.

Piven, Frances Fox, and Richard Cloward. Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail. New York: Pantheon, 1977, ch. 1 (pp. 1-40).

Poulantzas, Nicos. Political Power and Social Classes. New York: Verso, 1978, pp. 123-41, 255-62, 275-89, 296-307.

Putnam, Robert D. Making Democracy Work. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993, ch. 3 (pp. 63-82), ch. 5 (pp. 121-62). Bibliography.

Rokkan, Stein. 'Dimensions of State Formation and Nation Building: A Possible Paradigm for Research on Variations within Europe.' In The Formation of National States in Western Europe, ed. Charles Tilly. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975 (pp. 575-91).

Tilly, Charles. Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1990. Cambridge MA: Blackwell, 1990, chs. 1-4 (pp. 1-95).

Political Sociology: Structure and Process - http://www.abacon.com/books/ab_0205147933.html

Wildavsky, Aaron, and Carolyn Weber. A History of Taxation and Expenditure in the Western World. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986, ch. 10 (pp. 560-614).

POLITICAL VIOLENCE
Violence is a common means used by people and governments around the world to achieve political goals. Many groups and individuals believe that their political systems will never respond to their political demands. As a result they believe that violence is not only justified but also necessary in order to achieve their political objectives. By the same token, many governments around the world believe they need to use violence in order to intimidate their populace into acquiescence. At other times, governments use force in order to defend their country from outside invasion or other threats of force.
Political violence is used by citizens, groups, or governments in different contexts: polisci.nelson.com/violence.html

Weberian Political Sociology and Sociological Disaster Studies Abstract The specialized field of disaster studies seems to be moving farther away from mainstream sociology, to the detriment of both. - www-rcf.usc.edu/~rstallin/WeberAbs.htm

Journal of Political Ecology: Case Studies in History and Society - On-line content, with articles and book reviews on anthropology, environment, and place. - library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/jpeweb.html

Journal of political and military sociology - The JPMS is an independent, interdisciplinary, and biannual publication, which has withstood the test of time for its uninterrupted publication. In part, this was accomplished because from its very inception the JPMS set high standards of scholarship and excellence. At the same time, over the years the JPMS has been fortunate to have the professional support of some of the leading scholars in the fields of political and military sociology. Since its founding in 1973, the Journal of political and military sociology has helped to generate scholarly interest in political and military sociology by seeking to advance and disseminate social science knowledge in these sub-fields and other areas in social sciences. By combining the two areas of political and military sociology into one journal, the JPMS has brought together a number of scholars with differing perspectives into the evaluation process of manuscripts. - jpms.niu.edu/