Contemporary Political Sociology

Autor:	Kate Nash
EAN:	9781444320770
eBook Format:	PDF
Sprache:	Englisch
Produktart:	eBook
Veröffentlichungsdatum:	15.12.2009
Untertitel:	Globalization, Politics and Power
Kategorie:	Politik
Schlagworte:	Globalization citizenship cultural politics democracy environmentalism political sociology social movements

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This fully revised and updated introduction to political sociology incorporates the burgeoning literature on globalization and shows how contemporary politics is linked to cultural issues, social structure and democratizing social action.

New material on global governance, human rights, global social movements, global media
New discussion of democracy and democratization
Clearly lays out what is at stake in deciding between alternatives of cosmopolitanism, imperialism and nationalism
Includes additional discussion of the importance of studying culture to political sociology

Kate Nash is Reader in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths. She recently published The Cultural Politics of Human Rights: Comparing the US and UK (2009), she is editor (with Alan Scott and Anna Marie Smith) of New Critical Writings in Political Sociology (2009), and she is currently editing (with Alan Scott and Edwin Amenta) The New Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology.