The New Political Sociology Power, Ideology and Identity in an Age of Complexity

by Taylor, Graham

• ISBN13: 9780230573338
• ISBN10: 0230573339
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book is an investigation into how the categories of political sociology have been impacted by the cultural, global and complexity turns in contemporary sociology. The author argues for the development of an existential turn in political sociology to capture the ambiguous social and political forms that have emerged through these turns.

Author Biography

GRAHAM TAYLOR is Reader in Sociology at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vi
List of Abbreviations	p. vii
Introduction: The Contours of Social and Political Complexity	p. 1
Political Sociology in an Age of Complexity	p. 13
Complex Powers: Beyond the Panopticon?	p. 34
The End of the Nation State? The Disarticulation of Power and Identity	p. 55
Glocalized Identities: Political Culture between Place and Space	p. 80
Networks of Resistance: Global Complexity and the Politics of New Social Movements	p. 103
Networks of Terror: Globalization, Fundamentalism and Political Violence	p. 126
Complex Citizenships: Between Universalism and Particularism?	p. 148
Global Civil Society? The Prospects for Cosmocracy	p. 172
Conclusion: Towards an 'Existential Turn' in Political Sociology	p. 195
Glossary	p. 199
Bibliography	p. 201
Index	p. 223
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