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This monograph explores the interplay between ideas of the political and the way that we, as sociologists, look at the phenomena that we study. Shows what empirical sociological enquiries into the political reveal on theoretical and conceptual levels Discusses how sociologists should study and understand the political Evaluates how the political intersects with current social identities and divisions Includes empirical and theoretical cases

The central theme of this monograph is the interplay between ideas of the p... MOREolitical and the way sociologists look at the range of phenomena we study. The political and its relation to the social has of course long been a source of profound debate within political sociology as well as more generally. What we want to mark in this volume are some key ways in which the ever-burgeoning lines of inquiry and analysis within sociology alter conceptions of the political, with mutually profound implications for understandings of the social across the discipline of sociology. Notions of how power operates open up our understandings of the social as these unfold from earlier holistic and overly-humanistic images of society. Consequently fieldwork now embraces relations and affects that are not directly observable, but can be traced, and reported, through the circulation of artefacts, discourses, practices, and technologies. So too political inquiry becomes more nuanced and grounded in what Durkheim called 'social facts'. Charting our everyday institutions and unseen forms of organising not only helps to show how (and when) lifeworlds are made stable and tractable, it permits closer examination and questioning as to who benefits from the feelings of security and belonging so granted. Parts 1 and 2 explore the complex interrelations between the social and the political, through their traditional focus on the entangled themes of borders and belonging. The examination of discourse, Part 4, and social movements, Part 5, provide analytical routes through which the boundaries between theoretical and empirical research are also called into question. For all this, as the papers in Part 3 demonstrate, theoretical contributions -if taking a less central, legislating role- remain as important as ever. Taken together, the articles in this volume provide key insights into the many, many ways with which a commitment to the political affects understandings of the social in contemporary sociology.

The empirical and theoretical cases presented in this volume, when taken as a whole, demonstrate the nuanced ways that the political may influence the articulation of particular social phenomena. So too they reflect how a concern for the political impacts on how we undertake our sociological enquiries.

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Introduction: Unfolding social construction: sociological routes and political roots	p. 1
Borders	p. 23
The Danube and ways of imagining Europe	p. 25
The art of narrating and the question of cultural acknowledgment: the case of Die Kinder von Golzow and a reunified Germany	p. 44
Belonging	p. 61
Landscape, imagination and experience: processes of emplacement among the British in rural France	p. 63
The reproduction of 'cultural taste' amongst the Ukrainian Diaspora in Bradford, England	p. 78
Forum for the Ugly People - study of an imagined community	p. 97
Theory	p. 115
Sociological analysis and socio-political change: juxtaposing elements of the work of Bourdieu, Passeron and Lyotard	p. 117
Cultivating disconcertment	p. 135
Epistemology and the politics of knowledge	p. 154
Discourse	p. 167
Populist elements in contemporary American political discourse	p. 169
Released from gender? Reflexivity, performativity, and therapeutic discourses	p. 189
Embracing dependency: rethinking (in)dependence in the discourse of care	p. 205
Social movements	p. 225
Curious cases: small island states' exceptionalism and its contribution to comparative welfare theory	p. 227
The political-opportunity structure of the Spanish anti-war movement (2002-2004) and its impact	p. 246
Between mobility and mobilization - lifestyle migration and the practice of European identity in political struggles	p. 270
Notes on contributors	p. 291
Index	p. 295
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Michaela Benson is a research assistant at the University of Bristol. She previously held the Sociological Review fellowship (2008-9), and is the author of The British in Rural France (2011), and co-editor of the volume Lifestyle Migration (2009). Holland Munro is Emeritus Professor at Keele University and was previously Director of the Centre for Social Theory Technology, CSTT. He is internationally regarded for his path-breaking and interdisciplinary work on consumption, power and identity.

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