CONTENT AND STRUCTURE
What is Political Sociology?
The task of political sociology is to explore and explain the relationship between politics and society, between social and political institutions, and between social and political behaviour.

Contemporary political sociology also “concerns cultural politics, which is the interpretation of social meanings that support, challenge, or change the definitions, perspectives, and identities of social actors, to the advantage of some and the disadvantage of others, across the state and society” (Nash 2010).

This course aims to explore some of the great debates about the relationship between politics and society. In particular, it explores the challenges faced by nation-state as a result of social movements, new conceptions of democracy and globalization.


Contents
1. Power
2.Globalization and Ideologies
3. Democracy
4. Representation
5. Democratic Innovations and Citizenship
6. Political Participation
7. Media, Politics and Society
8. Depoliticisation and the Post-Political
9. The rising of the new populism
10. State, Nation, and Society


Further information: http://docenti.luiss.it/sorice/political-sociology/