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Political Sociology Power and Participation in the Modern World

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.10.2008

Verlag

Oxford University Press

Seitenzahl

336

Maße (L/B/H)

23,4/15,6/1,8 cm

Gewicht

512 g

Auflage

5. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-537115-4

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.10.2008

Verlag

Oxford University Press

Seitenzahl

336

Maße (L/B/H)

23,4/15,6/1,8 cm

Gewicht

512 g

Auflage

5. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-537115-4

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Political Sociology

    • PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION
    • CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
    • Power and Authority
    • Institutions, Networks, and Culture
    • Visions of Societies and Politics: Marx, Weber, Durkheim, de Toqueville, and Polanyi
    • Pedagogical Guidelines
    • CHAPTER 2. ON THE ECONOMY AND POLITICS: KARL MARX AND THE NEO MARXISTS
    • Karl Marx on the Economy and Politics
    • The Essential Marx
    • The Economy and Social Stratification
    • Substructure and Superstructure
    • Politics as a Reflection of the Class Struggle
    • State Power and Its Limits
    • Sustaining Capitalism and the Rule of Capitalists
    • Revolution and Change
    • The Neo-Marxists
    • V.I. Lenin
    • Antonio Gramsci
    • The Frankfurt School
    • Nicos Poulantzas
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
    • CHAPTER 3. ON STATES AND SOCIETIES: MAX WEBER AND THE NEO-WEBERIANS
    • Max Weber on States and Politics
    • The Essential Weber
    • The State
    • The Power of the Ruler
    • Authority and Its Legitimacy
    • Political Power and Contending Social Groups
    • The Neo-Weberians
    • Reinhard Bendix
    • Charles Tilly
    • Theda Skocpol
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
    • CHAPTER 4: ON CIVIL SOCIETY AND POLITICS: EMILE DURKHEIM AND ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
    • Emile Durkheim on Civil Society and Politics
    • The Essential Durkheim
    • Society
    • States, Politics, and Societies
    • Alexis de Tocqueville on Civil Society and Politics
    • The Essential Tocqueville
    • Equality in America
    • The Conditions (Causes) for Equality
    • Threats to Democracy in America
    • Concluding Observations
    • The Neo-Consensualists
    • Seymour Martin Lipset
    • Robert Bellah
    • James S. Coleman and Robert Putnam
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
    • CHAPTER 5: ON THE POLITICS, LAW, AND MORALITY OF MARKETS
    • Karl Polanyi
    • The Essential Polanyi
    • Fictitious Commodities: Land, Labor and Money
    • State Action is Inherent to Market Formation
    • The Interwar Years
    • Protectionist Countermovement
    • Future Prospects
    • Notes
    • CHAPTER 6: BASIC FORMS OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY
    • Basic Types of Political Rule: The Classical Greek Conceptions
    • Types of Political Rule in the Modern World
    • Democracy
    • Totalitarianism
    • Authoritarianism
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
    • CHAPTER 7: POWER AND AUTHORITY IN AMERICA
    • Prologue
    • The Power of the American State
    • The American State as a War-Making State
    • The American State as a Welfare State
    • Sociological Perspectives on the Power of the State Today
    • The Power of Business and Corporations
    • The Corporate Community
    • The Corporate Inner Circle
    • Multinational Corporations and the Growth of the Global Economy
    • Does America Possess a Ruling Class - or Even a Dominant Class?
    • Equality and Inequality in Modern America
    • Economic Inequality
    • Political Equality
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
    • CHAPTER 8: POWER AND AUTHORITY IN THE METROPOLIS
    • The Metropolis in American History
    • The Rise and Decline of the Industrial Metropolis
    • The Reign of Local Notables and the Engagement of Ordinary Citizens
    • The Industrial Revolution and Rise of the Capitalist
    • Class
    • The Mature Industrial City: Government Emerges as Do
    • Political Divisions
    • The Decline of the Industrial City: the Loss of Industry, Local Clout and the Emergence of Ethnic/Racial Conflicts
    • Concluding Observations
    • The Politics of the Contemporary American City
    • The Contentious Politics of the American Metropolis: Central Cities, Suburbs, and Edge Cities
    • Sunbelt Cities and Metropolitan Fragmentation
    • Interpreting the City
    • Political Pluralism in the City: Civil Society and the Dispersal of Power
    • The City as a Growth Machine: The Political Economy of the City
    • The City and the Creative Class: Reviving the Metropolis Today
    • Concluding Observations
    • Remaking the American City
    • Cities and the New Global Economy
    • Global Cities
    • Other Postindustrial Cities
    • Regional and Urban Experiments of Major Developing Nations: China, South Korea and Taiwan
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
    • CHAPTER 9: POLITICAL PARTIES
    • The Nature of Modern Political Parties
    • The Birth of Modern Political Parties
    • Variations in Modern Political Parties: Highlights of Current and Early Patterns
    • Current Patterns
    • Early Patterns: The Political Machine of Urban America
    • The Power and Politics of Modern Political Parties
    • The Breadth of Political Partisanship
    • Values and Partisanship
    • The Social Bases of Partisanship
    • The Past and Future of Modern Political Parties: The Case of the United States
    • Notes
    • CHAPTER 10: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: BASIC PERSPECTIVES
    • The Nature of Social Movements
    • Collective Behavior vs. Collective Action
    • New Paradigms for the Study of Social Movements
    • The Resource Mobilization Paradigm
    • Political Process vs. Identity Politics
    • Mobilization, and Framing
    • Identity Politics and "New" Social Movement Theory
    • Beyond Democratic Elitism and Democratic Fundamentalism: The 2008 Presidential Campaign and Pressures for Social Change
    • The Politics of Influence
    • Culture, Structure, States
    • Notes
    • CHAPTER 11: TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND GLOBALIZATION
    • The Multiple Meanings of Globalization
    • The Free Burma Movement as Transnational Social Movement
    • The Selective Purchasing Law Campaign
    • The Campaign to De-Charter Unocal Corporation
    • The Alien Tort Claims Campaign
    • New Directions for Social Movements and Research
    • Notes
    • CHAPTER 12: THE MASS MEDIA
    • Highlights in the History of the Mass Media in America
    • The Mass Media as a Vehicle of Corporate Capitalism
    • The Mass Media and Their Influence in Society
    • Agenda-Setting
    • The Media and the Business of Making the News
    • The Public and Its View and Susceptibility to the Media
    • The Future of the News and the News of the Future
    • Notes
    • CHAPTER 13: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND THE PURSUIT OF DEMOCRACY
    • Democratic Theory and Participation
    • A Classic View of Democracy and its Critics
    • Why Public Participation is Essential to the Workings of Democracy
    • A Challenge to Democratic Theory: Rational Choice
    • Rational Choice and Collective Action
    • The Problem of the Free Rider
    • Selective Incentives
    • Public Participation in Everyday Social Life
    • Political Participation and Social Cleavages
    • Rates and Types of Political Participation
    • Social Class and Participation
    • Gender and Participation
    • Race, Ethnicity, and Participation
    • Promoting Political Participation in the Pursuit of Democracy
    • Notes