POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY FOR A GLOBALIZING WORLD

Book Details

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Author: Michael S. Drake

• Language: English

• Edition: 2018

• ISBN: 9788131609705

• Pages: 240

• Cover: Hardcover

About the Book
This book addresses one of the twenty-first century's most significant issues: the increasing disconnection between political institutions and the social realities of everyday life. Since the 1968 revolts against authority, the 1989 Eastern European revolutions, and the rise of new social movements, a growing gulf has emerged between popular expectations and formal politics. This disillusionment with politics has become pervasive in today's world. Despite enormous social transformations since the 1970s, there has been little change in political institutions such as the state or mainstream ideologies and parties.

Michael S. Drake explores the apparent irrelevance of formal political institutions to social life and offers tools to understand this issue. By synthesizing new theoretical developments driven by social transformations, he covers key concepts such as power, representation, social identities, social movements, sovereignty, globalization, revolution, risk, and security. The book also investigates the evolving dynamics of politics in a continuously changing world, with shifting political parameters.

Contents

• Political Sociology and Social Transformation

• Theorizing Power

• From Identity Politics to the Politics of Representation

• Sovereignty and the State

• Citizens, Nations, and Nationalisms

• Civil Society and the Public Sphere

• Social Movements

• Risk and Securitization

• Cosmopolitanisms and Post-National Formations

• War, Terror, and Security

About the Author
Michael Drake is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Hull, specializing in topics related to political sociology, social transformations, and the complexities of modern political systems.