International political sociology
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Table of Contents
- Introduction.
- Growing and nurturing the field.
- Mapping the field.
- Lipset's Democratization hypothesis.
- Lipset and Rokkan's Frozen Cleavage hypothesis.
- Skocpol brings In the state.
- Political sociology at the crossroads and into the future.
- At the crossroads.
- Future trends, changes, and paradoxes: The global context.
- Challenges ahead for political sociologists.
- Conclusion.
Abstract
political sociology is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry developed by sociologists and political scientists to study the dynamic relationship between society (a complex web of social institutions and social behavior) and politics. Much of the impetus for the development of the field grew out of the turbulent events and trends of the twentieth century - mass politics, economic depression, two world wars, fascism, totalitarianism, the cold war, the nuclear age, modernization, nationalism, and the proliferation of new nation-states. Great optimism was attached to the possibility of building a better world with the aid of social science and research. Initially, the interest was in identifying the social roots of democracy, the organization and impact of the state, and the role of social scientists in building and testing theories, measuring people's political attitudes and behavior, and applying the social sciences to public policy. By the late 1950s, leading sociologists and political scientists saw the need for a comparative perspective in trying to understand the interplay between social and political forces. The formal establishment of political sociology as an international field of study occurred during 1959-1960 with a proposal for a new Research Committee on political sociology (CPS) at the Fourth World Congress of the international Sociological Association (ISA) meeting in 1959 and the ISA's acceptance of the proposal in 1960. For more than three decades, the CPS has been a center of cross-national research activity and communication for like-minded sociologists and political scientists.
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