Sociology of Politics. Theoretical Perspectives

• Sociology and Political Science • From the Sociology of Politics to Political Sociology • The Sociology of Parties, Class Voting, Toward Political Sociology • The Shape of Political theory To Come: From Political Sociology to Political Economy • The shape of Political Sociology, The new Political Economy, • The Relationship between Economics and the other Social Sciences • Sociological Evidence and Value Assumptions in Democratic Theory
• Apter’s Structural-Functional Requisite Analysis • Max Weber: Theorist of Administrative Sociology • Shifting Trends in Political Analysis • Political Language • Formalisation and Creativity, Rhetorical Exchange and Negotiation • Social and Political Movements • What is Political, The Concept of Movement, Culture and Ideology, Charismatic Authority
• Political Symbolism • Politics and the Symbolism of Life Crises, • The Vision of Karl Marx