James McAuley

An Introduction to Politics, State and Society (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This major new textbook will equip students with a complete understanding of contemporary politics, state and society in the United Kingdom today.

Key underlying themes include:

- the differences between traditional and alternative `sites of power' and what we mean by `political'

- the relationships between politics, society and how individuals become and remain engaged with politics

- the rapid transformations in contemporary social structures and their impact on social and political life

- the role of human agency and its significance to social and political action and movements

- contemporary cultural and social dislocations and their impact on some of the major contested areas of political life today.

Key features include:

- key concepts and issues

- key theorists and writers

- discussion questions

Comprehensive and accessible, An Introduction to Politics, State & Society is an essential text for all undergraduate students of politics, the contemporary state, power and political sociology.

James W McAuley is Professor of Political Sociology and Irish Studies in the School of Human and Health Sciences at the University of Huddersfield

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847871473
• Artikelnr.: 38417038

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Politics, State and Society
PART ONE: POLITICS, POWER, POLITICAL LEGITIMACY AND THE STATE
Founding Arguments
Theorizing Politics, Power and the State
Legitimacy and Power in the United Kingdom
PART TWO: SOCIETY AND THE STATE
(Re)defining Politics
Neoliberalism and the State
The Politics of the Welfare and the Welfare State
Northern Ireland, Political Violence and the Politics of Terrorism
PART THREE: THE FUTURE OF POLITICS AND THE STATE
Social Class, Postmodernism and the End of Politics?
Politics in the New Millennium
Globalization and the End of Social Democracy?