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SP 219 - Political Sociology
Semester 2, 2016/17
Module Co-ordinator: Dr. Eilís Ward
Office Hours: 10 – 11.00 Monday & 12 – 1.00 Tuesday:
Room 317, 2nd Floor, Aras Moyola
e-mail:[email protected]
Lecturers: Dr. Eilís Ward; Dr. Kevin Ryan, Gary Hussey.
Lecture Venues, Time and Day:
G017 Engineering Building - Mondays 12-1: AM 200 - Tuesdays 2-3.
Course Aims:
Political sociology is the study of the relationship between society and politics.
Traditionally political sociologists have focused on such topics as the types of sociopolitical orders, theories of the state, or political culture. Recent years have seen much
attention being devoted to the socio-historical study of a range of issues relating to state
power, social stratification, war, violence, political legitimacy, authority, ideology,
citizenship, social movements, nationalism, ethnicity and globalisation. This course will
provide an introduction to both classical and contemporary issues in political sociology.
It will review the leading theoretical and historical approaches in the field in a way that
illustrates theory with concrete empirical work and historical case studies.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to demonstrate detailed understanding of the main approaches and
central debates in political sociology and will be familiar with key sociological concepts
such as the state, war and organised violence, social movements, citizenship, ideology,
political violence, nationalism and globalisation.
Class Attendance:
Full attendance at all lectures is essential and attendance will be recorded.
NOTE: All readings marked * are on one day loan in the Library. All others are available
in the Library or as indicated.
Course Programme
1 – Introduction: Politics, Society and the State (Dr. Eilís Ward)
Essential Reading:
*Faulks, K. (1999) ‘Introduction’ in his Political Sociology: A Critical Introduction. New
York: New York University Press, pp 1-8. (FAU 306.2)
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Hay, C and Lister, M. (2006) ‘Introduction: Theories of the State’. In Hay, C. Lister, M.,
& Marsh, D. (Eds.). The State: Theories and Issues. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Additional Reading:
*Faulks, K. (1999) ‘Classical Theories of the State’ in his Political Sociology: A Critical
Introduction. New York: New York University Press, pp 20-50.
*Dobratz, B.,Waldner, L. and Buzzell, T. (2011) ‘Power’ in Power, Politics and Society:
An Introduction to Political Sociology. Boston: Pearson. pp. 1-35.
2 – Tradition, Modernity and Post-modernity (Dr. Kevin Ryan)
Essential Reading:
*Gellner, E. (1997) ‘A Short History of Mankind’ and ‘The Industrial and Industrialising
World’ in his Nationalism. London: Phoenix, pp. 14-30. (320.54 GEL)
Bauman, Z. (1989) Extracts from his Modernity and the Holocaust. Cambridge: Polity,
pp. vii-xiv, 6-30 (940.5318 BAU).
Additional Reading:
Bauman, Z. (1989) Modernity and the Holocaust. Cambridge: Polity (940.5318 BAU).
Bauman, Z. (1991) Modernity and Ambivalence. Cambridge: Polity Press (306 BAU).
Crook, S. (2001) ‘Social theory and the Postmodern’. In Ritzer, G., & Smart, B.,
Handbook of social theory. London: Sage (300.1 HAN, also available online)
*Gellner, E. (1990) Plough, Sword and Book: The Structure of Human History. Chicago:
Chicago University Press (901 GEL).
Delanty, G. (2000) Modernity and Postmodernity. London: Sage (e-book only).
Giddens, A. (1985) The Nation-State and Violence. Cambridge: Polity. Especially Ch. 2,
‘The Traditional State: Domination and Military Power’, pp.35-60 (320.1 GID).
Harvey, D. (1990) The Condition of Postmodernity. Cambridge, MA & Oxford, UK:
Blackwell (306 HAR).
Mann, M. (1986, 1993) The Sources of Social Power, Vol.1 and Vol. 2. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press (volume 1: 303.3 MAN; both volumes available as e-books).
Polanyi, K. [1944] (2001) The Great Transformation (330.9 POL)
* Z Baumann (1991). “The Quest for Order” in his Modernity and Ambivalence,
Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 1 – 17. (306 BAU)
3 – Information Society (Dr. Kevin Ryan)
Essential Reading:
Extract from Van Dijk, J. (2012) The Network Society, 3rd ed. London: Sage, pp. 1-18
(302.23 DIJ).
Extract from Lyon, D. (1994) The Electronic Eye, University of Minnesota Press:
Minneapolis, pp. 62-79 (303.4833 LYO).
Trottier, D. 2015. Open Source Intelligence, Social Media and Law Enforcement:
Visions, Constraints and Critiques. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 18(4-5): 530547.
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Additional Reading:
On Surveillance and Panopticism
Bauman, Z. and D. Lyon. 2013. Liquid Surveillance. Polity: Cambridge.
Gane, N. 2012. The Governmentalities of Neo-Liberalism: Panopticism, PostPanopticism and Beyond. The Sociological Review, 60: 611-634.
Haggerty K. D. and R. V. Ericson. 2000. The Surveillant Assemblage. British Journal of
Sociology, 5194): 605-622.
Lyon, D, ed. (2006) Theorizing Surveillance: The Panopticon and Beyond. Willan
Publishing (323.448THE).
Mathiesen,T. 1997. The Viewer Society: Michel Foucault’s ‘Panopticon’ Revisited.
Theoretical Criminology, 1(2): 215-234.
On the Information Society/Network Society
Castells, M. ( 1996/2000) The Rise of the Network Society, Oxford: Blackwell (303.4833
CAS).
Castells, M. (2001) The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and
Society. Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press (303.4833 CAS).
Garrett, K. (2006). ‘Protest in an Information Society: A Review of Literature on Social
Movements and New ICTs’. Information, Communication and Society, 9(2), 202-224.
Van de Donk, W., Loader, B.D., Nixon, P.G., and Rucht, D. (eds) (2004)
Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens, and Social Movements. London: Routledge
(303.4833 CYB)..
Webster, F. (1995) Theories of the Information Society London: Routledge (302.2 WEB).
Webster, F.(ed) (2001) Culture and Politics in the Information Age: a New Politics?
London: Routledge (303.4833 CU).
Webster, F., Raimo Blom, R. et al (eds) (2004) The Information Society Reader.
London: Routledge (303.4833 INF).
4 – Organised Violence and Modernity (Gary Hussey)
Essential Reading:
*Malesevic, S. 2010. ‘Organised Violence and Modernity’ in his The Sociology of War
and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pp 118-145. (303.6 MAL)
A. Giddens (1985) ‘Capitalist Development and the Industrialisation of War’ in his The
Nation-State and Violence. Cambridge: Polity, pp.222-255.
Additional Reading:
Drake, Michael (2010). Political sociology for a globalizing world. Cambridge: Polity.
Ch. 10. pp.194-206 on ‘New Wars’.
Giddens. A (1985) ‘Capitalist Development and the Industrialisation of War’ in his The
Nation-State and Violence. Cambridge: Polity, pp.222-255. (320.1 GID) and ‘State,
Nation-State and Military Power in Social Theory’ (22-31) and ‘Military power from the
Absolutist to the Nation-State pp.103-116.
Joas, H. 1999 ‘The Modernity of War’ International Sociology. 14 (4): 457-472.
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*Joas, H. (2003) ‘The Dream of Modernity without Violence’ in his War and Modernity.
Cambridge: Polity Press pp. 29-42. (303.66 JOA)
Malesevic, S. (2008) ‘War’ in V. Parrillo (ed.) Encyclopeadia of Social Problems.
London: Sage. pp. 1010-1012.
Malesevic, S. 2010. ‘War and Violence before Modernity’ in his The Sociology of War
and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp 89-117.
*Scott, A. (2004) ‘The Political Sociology of War’. In Nash, K and Scott, A. (eds.) The
Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell.
5 – Nations and Nationalism (Dr. Eilís Ward)
Essential Reading:
* Day, G. and A. Thompson (2004) ‘Modernity and Modernization’. In Theorizing
Nationalism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.41-62.
Additional Reading:
Billig, M. (1995) Banal Nationalism. London: Sage.
*Delanty G. and Kumar, K. (eds.) (2006) The Sage Handbook of Nations and
Nationalism. London: Sage, especially ch. 13
Drake, Michael (2010). Political sociology for a globalizing world. Cambridge: Polity.
pp.104-115.
*Gellner, E. (1983) ‘Industrial Society’ in his Nations and Nationalism. Oxford:
Blackwell. pp. 19-38 (320.54 GEL) (On Blackboard)
Giddens, A. (1985) ‘Nation-State, Nation, Nationalism’ and ‘Citizenship, Ideology and
Nationalism’ in his The Nation-State and Violence. Cambridge: Polity, pp. 116-123 and
212-221.
Hearn Jonathan (2006) Rethinking Nationalism: A Critical Introduction, London:
Palgrave Macmillan.
Holton, R. J. (2011). ‘Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Globalizing World’ In Globalization
and the Nation-State. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.158-88.
Maleševic, S. (2013) Nation-States and Nationalisms. Cambridge: Polity
Gellner, E. (1997) Nationalism. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Ozkirimli, U. (2010) Theories of Nationalism. London: Palgrave.
Smith, A. D. (1998) ‘The Culture of Industrialism’ in Nationalism and Modernism.
London: Routledge, pp. 27-46. (320.54 SMI)
*Smith, A. D. (2009) Ethno-symbolism and Nationalism, London: Routledge.
6 –Citizenship, Social Class, and the Social State (Dr Kevin Ryan)
Essential Reading:
1. Marshall, T.H. [1949] (1992) ‘Citizenship and Social Class’, in Marshall, T.H. &
Bottomore, T., Citizenship and Social Class (305.5094)
2. Rose, N. (1999) Chapter 3, ‘The Social’, in Powers of Freedom (320.011 ROS)
Additional Reading:
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On Citizenship
Bottomore, T. (1992) ‘Citizenship and Social Class, Forty Years On’, in Marshall, T.H.
& Bottomore, T. Citizenship and Social Class (305.5094)
Dower, N. (2003) An Introduction to Global Citizenship. Edinburgh University Press
(323.6 DOW).
Faulks, K. (2000) Citizenship (323.6)
Kebeer, N. (2005) Inclusive Citizenship. London & NY: Zed (323.6 INC).
Turner, B. (1994) Citizenship: Critical Concepts (323.6 CIT)
On Governmentality theory and the Social State
Miller, P. & Rose, N. (2008) Chapter 4, ‘The Death of the Social?’, in Governing the
Present (361.6 MIL)
Rose, N. (1990) Chapters 11, ‘The Young Citizen’, 1 ‘The Psychology of War’, & 5 ‘The
Subject of Work’, in Governing the Soul (303.3 ROS)
Foucault, M. (2008) The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France 1978-79
(320.51 FOU)
Rose, N. (1999) Powers of Freedom (320.011 ROS)
Miller, P. & Rose, N. (2008) Governing the Present (361.6 MIL)
7. Political Legitimacy and the State (Gary Hussey)
Essential reading: to be announced.
Additional Reading
Drake, Michael (2010). Political sociology for a globalizing world. Cambridge: Polity.
Chapter 1 (introduction)
Jenkins, J. C. (2000) Political Sociology. Encyclopedia of Sociology, Vol. 3, 2162-2168.
* K Nash (2000) ‘Introduction: Changing Definitions of Politics and Power in Political
Sociology’ in Contemporary Political Sociology, Oxford: Blackwell, pp 1 – 19. (306.2
NAS)
Dobratz, B., Waldner, L. and Buzzell, T. (2011) ‘Role of the State’ in Power, Politics
and Society: An Introduction to Political Sociology. Boston: Pearson. pp. 36-70.
Giddens, A. (1985) Administrative Power, Internal Pacification’ ‘in his The Nation-State
and Violence. Cambridge: Polity, pp. 172-197
Hall, J. and Ikenberry, G. (1989) The State Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
Especially ch.1, ‘The State and Social Theory’.
Hay, C., Lister, M., & Marsh, D. (Eds.) (2006) The State: Theories and Issues.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Chs 1,2 and 3.
Mann, M. (1984) 'The Autonomous Power of the State: its Origins, Mechanisms and
Results'. European Journal of Sociology, 25 (2) 185-213.
Poggi, G. (2004) ‘Theories of State Formation’. In Nash K. and Scott A. (eds.) The
Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell.
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8 – Civil Wars (Gary Hussey)
Essential Reading:
Kalyvas, S. (2007). Civil Wars. in Boix, C. & Stokes, S.C (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook
of Comparative Politics pp. 416-434. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Additional Reading:
Collier, P., Hoeffler, A., & Rohner, D. (2009). ‘Beyond Greed and Grievance: Feasibility
and Civil War’. Oxford Economic Papers, 61(1), 1-27. Online.
*Dobratz, B., Waldner, L. and Buzzell, T. (2011) ‘Violence and Terrorism’ in Power,
Politics and Society: An Introduction to Political Sociology. Boston: Pearson. pp. 303343.
Drake, M. (2004) ‘Revolution’.in Nash K. and Scott, A. (eds.) The Blackwell Companion
to Political Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 195-207.
Della Porta, D. (2004) ‘Terror against the state’. In Nash, K. and Scott, A. (eds.) The
Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 208-216.
Mason, T. D., Crenshaw, M., McClintock, C., & Walter, B. (2007). How Political
Violence Ends: Paths to Conflict Deescalation and Termination. APSA Task Force on
Political Violence and Terrorism, Group 3. Online.
Smyth, M. (2012). The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence. Burlington,
VT: Ashgate.
9 –Social Movements (Dr. Eilís Ward
Essential Reading:
Tarrow, S. and Tilly, C. (2007) ‘Contentious Politics and Social Movements’ in Boix, C.
& Stokes, S.C (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics Oxford: Oxford
University Press, pp. 435-460.
* Faulks, K. (1999) ‘New Social Movements’ in his Political Sociology: A Critical
Introduction. New York: New York University Press, pp. 87-103. (306.2 FAU)
Additional Reading:
Boudreau, V and Meyer, D. (2009) ‘Social Movements’ in Landman, T., & Robinson, N.
(Eds.), The SAGE handbook of comparative politics. London: Sage, pp.348-361.
Drake, Michael (2010). Political sociology for a globalizing world. Cambridge: Polity.
Ch. 7.
*Dobratz, B., Waldner, L. and Buzzell, T. (2011) ‘Social Movements’ in Power, Politics
and Society: An Introduction to Political Sociology. Boston: Pearson. pp. 269-302.
Johnston, H. (2011). States and Social Movements. Cambridge: Polity.
Nash, K. (2000) ‘The Politicisation of the Social: Social Movements and Cultural
Politics’ Contemporary Political Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell, pp.100-151.
*Tarrow, S. (1994) Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action and
Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Della Porta, D. and Diani, M. (1999) Social Movements: An Introduction. Oxford:
Blackwell.
*Scott, A. (1995) Ideology and the new Social Movements. London: Routledge.
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10– Globalisation and the Nation-State (Dr. Eilís Ward)
Essential Reading:
Mann, M. (1997) 'Has Globalization Ended the Rise and Rise of the Nation-State?'
Review of International Political Economy, 4 (3) 472-496.
Additional Reading:
Bauman, Z. (1998) Globalisation: Human Consequences. Cambridge: Polity Press.
*Dobratz, B., Waldner, L. and Buzzell, T (2011) ‘Globalization’ in Power, Politics and
Society: An Introduction to Political Sociology. Boston: Pearson. pp. 344-376.
Drake, M (2010). Political sociology for a globalizing world. Cambridge: Polity. Ch. 9.
*Faulks, K. (1999) Political Sociology: A Critical Introduction. New York: New York
University Press, pp 53-70.
Giddens, A. (1985) The Nation-State and Violence. Cambridge: Polity, pp.83-121 and
255-293.
Hall, J.A. (2000) ‘Globalisation and Nationalism’. Thesis Eleven. 63, pp. 63-79.
Holton, R. J. (2011). ‘Is the Nation State finished?’ In Globalization and the nation-state.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Marsh, D, Smith, N & Hothi, N 2005, 'Globalization and the State'. In Hay, C, Lister, M,
& Marsh, D (Eds.). The state: theories and issues. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.
172-189.
Nash, K. (2000) ‘Politics in a Small World: Globalisation and the Displacement of the
Sovereign Nation-State’ in her Contemporary Political Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell,
pp.47-99.
11.Course Review and Revision (Dr. Eilís Ward).
Time for questions, clarifications, revisions…
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