Concept information
Preferred term
political sociology
Definition
- Political sociology is politics studied sociologically. More specifically, it is politics as the practice of power, as this has typically been defined sociologically, that is, in terms of social relations. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Political Sociology]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- anomia
- apathy
- attitude consistency
- civic culture
- civic participation
- contentious participation
- corporativism
- credible commitment
- electoral behavior
- electronic media
- elitism
- historical memory
- intellectuals
- international public opinion
- international society
- neo-corporatism
- networks
- nonstate actors
- party identification
- patriotism
- pillarization
- political beliefs
- political culture
- political dissatisfaction
- political mobilization
- political participation
- political socialization
- political sociology as a field of study
- political support
- popular culture
- primary elections
- print media
- schemas
- scripts
- social cohesion
- social dominance orientation
- social trust
- solidarity
- subject culture
- tolerance
- values (guiding principles)
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/political_sociology
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