Sociological Routes and Political Roots

Herausgeber: Benson, Michaela; Munro, Rolland

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This monograph explores the interplay between ideas of the political and the way that we, as sociologists, look at the phenomena that we study. Shows what empirical sociological enquiries into the political reveal on theoretical and conceptual levelsDiscusses how sociologists should study and understand a political environment Evaluates how the political intersects with current social identities and divisionsIncludes empirical and theoretical cases

Produktdetails

• Sociological Review Monographs
• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781444338133
• ISBN-10: 1444338137
• Artikelnr.: 32963032

Autorenporträt

Michaela Benson is a research assistant at the University ofBristol. She previously held the Sociological Review fellowship(2008-9), and is the author of The British in Rural France(2011), and co-editor of the volume Lifestyle Migration(2009).

Rolland Munro is Emeritus Professor at KeeleUniversity and was previously Director of the Centre for SocialTheory & Technology, CSTT. He is internationally regarded forhis path-breaking and interdisciplinary work on consumption, powerand identity.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Unfolding social construction: sociological routes and politicalroots (Rolland Munro)

Part 1: Borders
1. The Danube and ways of imagining Europe (MichaelSchillmeier and Wiebke Pohler)
2. The art of narrating and the question of culturalacknowledgment: the case of Die Kinder von Golzow and a reunifiedGermany (Barbara Grüning)

Part 2: Belonging
3. Landscape, imagination and experience: processes ofemplacement among the British in rural France (MichaelaBenson)
4. The reproduction of 'cultural taste' amongst the UkrainianDiaspora in Bradford, England (Oscar Forero and Graham Smith)
5. Forum for the Ugly People - study of an imagined community(Maria Adamczyk)

Part 3: Theory
6. Sociological analysis and socio-political change:juxtaposing elements of the work of Bourdieu, Passeron and Lyotard(Derek Robbins)
7. Cultivating disconcertment (John Law and Wen-yuan Lin)
8. Epistemology and the politics of knowledge (Celine-MariePascale)

Part 4: Discourse
9. Populist elements in contemporary American politicaldiscourse (Ritchie Savage)
10. Released from gender? Reflexivity, performativity, andtherapeutic discourses (Katerina LiSková)
11. Embracing dependency: rethinking (in)dependence in thediscourse of care (Bernhard Weicht)

Part 5: Social movements
12. Curious cases: small island states' exceptionalism and itscontribution to comparative welfare theory (Zoë Irving)
13. The political-opportunity structure of the Spanish anti-warmovement (2002-2004) and its impact (Isis SánchezEstellés)
14. Between mobility and mobilization - lifestyle migration and thepractice of European identity in political struggles (MichaelJanoschka)

Notes on contributors

Index