New Critical Writings in Political Sociology: Volume Two: Conventional and Contentious Politics

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The articles collected together in this volume are concerned with why and how people get involved in politics, whether through formal mechanisms such as voting, through some of the more informal means and settings of social movement networks and political protest, or through engagement in public debate. But just as important is the question of why people do not get involved in politics. What social conditions, ideas and values facilitate or discourage political activity? How is it that some people are systematically disempowered in democratic societies in comparison with others? What social forms offer the most promise for extending and deepening democracy? This volume brings togther the most seminal papers, which together form a record of how political sociologists since the 1970s have framed questions about the range and limits of democratic political engagement and developed concepts and methodologies in order to research the answers to those questions. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Series Preface Introduction Part I Class Elections and Parties 1 Jeff Manza, Michael Hout and Clem Brooks (1995), 'Class Voting in Capitalist Democracies since World War II: Dealignment, Realignment, or Trendless Fluctuation?', Annual Review of Sociology, 21, pp. 137-62. 2 Anne Phillips (2000), 'Representing Difference: Why Should it Matter if Women get Elected?', in A. Coote (ed.), New Gender Agenda, London: Institute of Public Policy Research, pp. 58-65. Part II Civil Society and Political Participation 3 Paul Hirst (2002), 'Renewing Democracy through Associations', Political Quarterly, 73, pp. 409-21. 4 Alejandro Portes (1998), 'Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology', Annual Review of Sociology, 24, pp. 1-24. Part III Social Movements 5 Herbert P. Kitschelt (1986), 'Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest: Anti-Nuclear Movements in four Democracies', British Journal of Political Science, 16, pp. 57-85. 6 Robert D. Benford and David A. Snow (2000), 'Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment', Annual Review of Sociology, 26, pp. 611-39. 7 Alberto Melucci (1985), 'The Symbolic Challenge of Contemporary Movements', Social Research, 52, pp. 789-816. 8 Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow and CharIes Tilly (1996), 'To Map Contentious Politics', Mobilization, 1, pp. 17-34. Part IV Changing Citizenship 9 Bryan S. Turner (1990), 'Outline of a Theory of Citizenship', Sociology, 24, pp. 189-217. 10 Rogers Brubaker (2001), 'The Return of Assimilation? Changing Perspectives on Immigration and its Sequels in France, Germany, and the United States', Ethnic and Racial Studies, 24, pp, 531-48, 11 Ruth Lister (1995), 'Dilemmas in Engendering Citizenship', Economy and Society, 24, pp, 1-40, 12 Etienne Balibar (1996), 'Is European Citizenship Possible?', Public Culture, 8, pp. 355-76. Part V Ideology and Hegemony 13 L. Althusser (1972), 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses: Notes towards an Investigation', in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, New York: Monthly Review, pp. 85-126. 14 Stuart Hall (1977), 'Culture, the Media and the "Ideological Effect"', in J. Curran, M. Gurevitch and J. Wollacott (eds), Mass Communication and Society, London: Edward Arnold, pp. 315-48. 15 Slavoj Žižek (2002), 'Welcome to the Desert of the Real!', South Atlantic Quarterly, 101, pp. 385-89. Part VI Political Culture and Cultural Politics 16 Clifford Geertz (2005), 'Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight', Daedalus, 134, pp. 56-86. 17 Robert N. Bellah (2005), 'Civil Religion in America', Daedalus, 134, pp. 40-55. 18 Uma Narayan (1997), 'Restoring History and Politics to "Third World Traditions''', in U. Narayan (ed.), Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions and Third World Feminism, London: Routledge, pp. 43-80, 195-203. Part VII Making Things Public and the Public Sphere 19 Jürgen Habermas (1974), 'The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article', trans. Sara Lennox and Frank Lennox, New German Critique, 3, pp. 49-55. 20 Nancy Fraser (1990), 'Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy', Social Text, 25/26, pp. 56-80. 21 Bruno Latour (2005), 'From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik or How to Make Things Public', in B. Latour and P. Weibel (eds), Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 14-41. 22 Zygmunt Bauman (1999), 'The Deconstruction of Politics' , in Zygmunt Bauman (ed.), In Search of Politics, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 72-100. Name Index