Readings in contemporary political sociology
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Readings in contemporary political sociology
Blackwell, 2000
- : hard
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This Reader presents the best published writings of prominent sociologists and political theorists currently working in the field.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors. Preface.
Part I: Power and Politics:.
Introduction.
1. The Subject and Power: Michel Foucault.
2. A Sociological Theory of Postmodernity: Zygmunt Bauman.
3. Inequality After Class: Malcolm Waters.
Part II: Globalization:.
Introduction.
4. From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation: David Harvey.
5. The Social Revolutions of our Time: Anthony Giddens.
6. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy: Arjun Appadurai.
7. The Question of Cultural Identity: Stuart Hall.
Part III: Social Movements and the Politicization of the Social:.
Introduction.
8. "New Social Movements" of the Early Nineteenth Century: Craig Calhoun.
9. The Concept of Social Movement: Mario Diani.
10. Transnational Contention: Sidney Tarrow.
Part IV: Citizenship, Exclusion, and Difference:.
11. Rethinking Citizenship and Social Movements: Themes in Contemporary Sociology and Neoconservative Ideology: Maurice Roche.
12. The Patriarchal Welfare State: Carole Pateman.
13. Toward a Postnational Model of Membership [in Europe]: Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal.
Part V: Democracy:.
Introduction.
14. The Public Sphere: Jurgen Habermas.
15. Hegemony and New Political Subjects: Toward a New Concept of Democracy: Chantal Mouffe.
16. Democracy, the Nation-State and the Global System: David Held.
Identity and Difference in Global Politics: William E. Connolly.
Index.
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