For a New Political Sociology

The Relational Approach of Pierre Bourdieu
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-81333-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This volume seeks to make the case for Pierre Bourdieu’s relational sociology as a powerful, comprehensive and integrated paradigm for studying everything political.

Bringing together a collection of experts writing on a wide range of topics organised into thematic sections, it not only shows the applicability of Bourdieu’s concepts is broader and more productive than previously thought. It also demonstrates how Bourdieu’s relational sociology advances on other perspectives and offers a ‘joined-up’ approach to the political, seamlessly capable of illuminating subjects as diverse as Brexit, voter choice, post-socialist transition, civil war, revolution, international relations and the structure of political science discourse itself.

This collection will be essential reading for students and scholars of politics, whether they be sociologists, political scientists or international relations specialists.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Atkinson, Will

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: For a relational political sociology; Part I. Class and Political Position-taking; 2. Class ethos and political parties in ante-Brexit Britain: A shifting correspondence; 3. Classed voting and the gender gap: A social space approach to an intersectional analysis; 4. Class and politics in post-socialist Poland; Part II. Politics and States in Times of Crisis; 5. Civil wars as situations of radical social change: Thinking ruptures, with and beyond Bourdieu; 6. National political fields and international politics: A Bourdieusian analysis of Middle East regional politics during the Arab Spring; Part III. Rethinking International Relations; 7. The field of nation states and the genesis of national strategies; 8. The limits of the state: Multiple interests and weakened circuits in delivering China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’; Part IV. A Reflexive Political Sociology; 9. A reflexive sociology of political science: Global and national discursive spaces; 10. Bourdieu’s political sociology: From imperialism to the state and back again

Über Autor(innen)

Will Atkinson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author/editor of ten books on social class and Bourdieu’s social theory, including Class in the New Millennium (2017), Bourdieu and After (2020) and a four-volume series on The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies (2020-25).