Readings in Contemporary Political Sociology

by Nash, Kate

• ISBN13: 9780631213635
• ISBN10: 0631213635
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-21
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This Reader presents the best published writings of prominent sociologists and political theorists currently working in the field.

Author Biography

Kate Nash is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of Universal Difference: Feminism and the Liberal Undecidability of Women (1998).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Preface	x
Part I Power and Politics	1	(62)
Introduction	3	(5)
The Subject and Power	8	(19)
Michael Foucault
A Sociological Theory of Postmodernity	27	(16)
Zygmunt Bauman
Inequality after Class	43	(20)
Malcolm Waters
Part II Globalization	63	(60)
Introduction	65	(4)
From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation	69	(14)
David Harvey
The Social Revolutions of our Time	83	(17)
Anthony Giddens
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy	100	(15)
Arjun Appadurai
The Question of Cultural Identity	115	(8)
Stuart Hall
Part III Social Movements and the Politicization of the Social	123	(80)
Introduction	125	(4)
``New Social Movements'' of the Early Nineteenth Century	129	(26)
Craig Calhoun
The Concept of Social Movement	155	(22)
Mario Diani
Transnational Contention	177	(26)
Sidney Tarrow
Part IV Citizenship, Exclusion, and Difference	203	(78)
Introduction	205	(4)
Rethinking Citizenship and Social Movements: Themes in Contemporary Sociology and Neoconservative Ideology	209	(29)
Maurice Roche
The Patriarchal Welfare State	238	(26)
Carole Pateman
Toward a Postnational Model of Membership [in Europe]	264	(17)
Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal
Part V Democracy	281	(67)
Introduction	283	(5)
The Public Sphere	288	(7)
Jurgen Habermas
Hegemony and New Political Subjects: Toward a New Concept of Democracy	295	(15)
Chantal Mouffe
Democracy, the Nation-State and the Global System	310	(26)
David Held
Identity and Difference in Global Politics	336	(12)
William E. Connolly
Index	348