Power and politics

ISBN-10: 9948145445
ISBN-13: 9789948145448
Pages: 316
Language: Arabic
Published: 2012
Author: Warren Kidd

Description

Palgrave Macmillan's Politics and Power is an introduction to the key ideas and debates in political sociology. Authored by Warren Kidd, Karen Legge and Philippe Harari, the book deals with significant subjects such as the role of political issues within sociology and the nature of power and politics in everyday life. It tries to define power and politics and delineates differing views on power besides shedding light on contemporary rethinking on the nature of politics in society. In its segment dealing with classical views on power and politics, the book deals with the role of early sociology in political change, problems with the industrial age and the dark side of modernist politics. Politics and Power also explains theories on the nature and distribution of power through a history of ideas, theories of democracy and theories of inequality and unfairness in society. The book also has a chapter dedicated to the new sociology of politics for a new world. There is also a country-specific chapter in the book on the changing ideologies and the transformation of political parties in the UK. The chapter elaborates variety of political systems and looks at UK's contemporary political ideologies. It deals with how the political ideological landscape has changed over the years. Theories on the role of state in society and globalization, nationalism and revolution are the other salient features of the book.

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