Political Sociology for a Globalizing World

242 Pages·2010·0.761 MB·English

by  Michael Drake

Political Sociology for a
Globalizing World

Political Sociology for a
Globalizing World
Michael S. Drake
polity
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Contents
Detailed Contents vi
Introduction 1
1 Political Sociology and Social Transformation 3
2 Theorizing Power 25
3 From Identity Politics to the Politics of Representation 52
4 Sovereignty and the State 70
5 Citizens, Nations and Nationalisms 95
6 Civil Society and the Public Sphere 116
7 Social Movements 134
8 Risk and Securitization 156
9 Cosmopolitanisms and Postnational Formations 173
10 War, Terror and Security 190
Conclusion 207
References 211
Index 225
Detailed Contents
Introduction 1
1 Political Sociology and Social Transformation 3
Situating political sociology 6
Resituating political sociology 10
Changing context, changing politics and the politics of
change 15
From situational to transformational political sociology 22
2 Theorizing Power 25
Power and theory 26
Power, part 1 28
Power as possession: elite theory 28
Max Weber and the instrumental concept of power 31
Marxism, ideology and the structural concept of power 35
Power, part 2 38
Power revisited 38
From ideology to discourse 39
Michel Foucault 41
Constituted and constituent power 48
3 From Identity Politics to the Politics of Representation 52
Conceptualizing social identity 53
Politics of identity in practice and theory 59
Strategies and problematics of identity politics 61
From the politics of identity to the politics of representation 64
Detailed Contents v ii
4 Sovereignty and the State 70
The state and social theory 72
Historical sociology of the state 77
The state problematized 86
State-systemic sovereignty 89
Sovereignty, power and war 92
5 Citizens, Nations and Nationalisms 95
Citizenship and social citizenship 96
Citizenship as a strategy of government 99
The concept of the nation 104
From ideology to imaginary 109
National identity as ‘real’ fantasy 113
6 Civil Society and the Public Sphere 116
The power of the powerless in ‘apolitical politics’ 117
Histories of the concept of civil society 117
Critiques of the concept of civil society 121
The public sphere 122
The historical sociology of the public sphere 125
The eclipse of the public sphere 128
Public spheres today? 129
The public sphere and social control 132
7 Social Movements 134
The concept of the social movement 134
Social movements in historical context, from ‘old’ to ‘new’ 137
Social movements as resource mobilization 142
Social movements as social creativity 144
Social movements and identity 146
New social movements and the revolution of everyday life 148
Conclusion 154
8 Risk and Securitization 156
Ulrich Beck 158
Risk society as a critical theory 161
Sub-politics and life politics 163
Limits 166
Securitization 167
Securitization as a critical theory 170
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9 Cosmopolitanisms and Postnational Formations 173
Dimensions of globalization 174
The global and the social as units of analysis 181
Cosmopolitanism and its imaginaries 183
Constitutive globalization 186
10 War, Terror and Security 190
Civilizing security? 191
New and old wars 194
New forms of violence 196
New wars 198
New ways of war 202
Conclusion 205
Conclusion 207
References 211
Index 225