Politics and Social Structure
Author : Talcott Parsons
Publisher :
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Talcott Parsons
Publisher :
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Tianjian Shi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 34,69 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107011760
This book uses surveys, statistics, and case studies to explain why and how cultural norms affect political attitudes and behavior.
Author : Oddbjørn Knutsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319521233
This book analyses the impact of socio-structural variables, such as social class, religion, urban/rural residence, age and gender, on influencing an individual’s voting preferences. There have been major changes in recent decades both to social structure and how social structure determines people’s voting behaviour. There has also been a shift in value orientations, for example from religious to secular values and from more authoritarian to libertarian values. The author addresses the questions: How do social structure and value orientations influence party choice in advanced industrial democracies?; To what extent is the impact of social structure on party choice transmitted via value orientations?; To what extent is the impact of value orientations on party choice causal effects when controlled for the prior structural variables? The book will be of use to advanced students and scholars in the fields of comparative politics, electoral politics and political sociology.
Author : Dominika Koter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 131677290X
Why do ethnic politics emerge in some ethnically diverse societies but not others? Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, Dominika Koter argues that the prevailing social structures of a country play a central role in how politicians attempt to mobilize voters. In particular, politicians consider the strength of local leaders, such as chiefs or religious dignitaries, who have historically played a crucial role in many parts of rural Africa. Local leaders can change the electoral dynamics by helping politicians secure votes among people of different ethnicities. Ethnic politics thus can be avoided where there are local leaders who can serve as credible electoral intermediaries between voters and politicians. Koter shows that there is widespread variation in the standing of local leaders across Africa, as a result of long-term historical trends, which has meant that politicians have mobilized voters in qualitatively different ways, resulting in different levels of ethnic politics across the continent.
Author : David M. Kotz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 1994-08-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521459044
The social structure of accumulation (SSA) approach seeks to explain the long-term fortunes of capitalist economies in terms of the effect of political and economic institutions on growth rates. This book offers an ideal introduction to this powerful tool for understanding capitalist growth, analysing the social and economic differences between countries and the reasons for the successes and failures of institutional reform. The contributors cover a wide range of topics, including the theoretical basis of the SSA approach, the postwar financial system, Marxian and Keynesian theories of economic crisis, labour-management relations, race and gender issues, and the history of institutional innovation. Combining newly written essays with classic articles of the SSA school, the book examines the international economy and the economies of Japan, South Africa, and Puerto Rico, as well as the United States.
Author : Seymour Martin Lipset
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 2023-07-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781022893757
One of the most influential works on political sociology ever written, this book explores the relationship between social structure and political behavior. Lipset's insights into the factors that shape political culture and ideology are as relevant today as when the book was first published. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : T. K. Oommen
Publisher : Delhi : Hindustan Publishing Corporation
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : John Levi Martin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1400830532
Social Structures is a book that examines how structural forms spontaneously arise from social relationships. Offering major insights into the building blocks of social life, it identifies which locally emergent structures have the capacity to grow into larger ones and shows how structural tendencies associated with smaller structures shape and constrain patterns of larger structures. The book then investigates the role such structures have played in the emergence of the modern nation-state. Bringing together the latest findings in sociology, anthropology, political science, and history, John Levi Martin traces how sets of interpersonal relationships become ordered in different ways to form structures. He looks at a range of social structures, from smaller ones like families and street gangs to larger ones such as communes and, ultimately, nation-states. He finds that the relationships best suited to forming larger structures are those that thrive in conditions of inequality; that are incomplete and as sparse as possible, and thereby avoid the problem of completion in which interacting members are required to establish too many relationships; and that abhor transitivity rather than assuming it. Social Structures argues that these "patronage" relationships, which often serve as means of loose coordination in the absence of strong states, are nevertheless the scaffolding of the social structures most distinctive to the modern state, namely the command army and the political party.
Author : Jon Mandle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 46,55 MB
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1316193985
John Rawls is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has permanently shaped the nature and terms of moral and political philosophy, deploying a robust and specialized vocabulary that reaches beyond philosophy to political science, economics, sociology, and law. This volume is a complete and accessible guide to Rawls' vocabulary, with over 200 alphabetical encyclopaedic entries written by the world's leading Rawls scholars. From 'basic structure' to 'burdened society', from 'Sidgwick' to 'strains of commitment', and from 'Nash point' to 'natural duties', the volume covers the entirety of Rawls' central ideas and terminology, with illuminating detail and careful cross-referencing. It will be an essential resource for students and scholars of Rawls, as well as for other readers in political philosophy, ethics, political science, sociology, international relations and law.