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Sociological Routes and Political Roots

by: Benson, Michaela; Munro, Rolland

Sociological Routes and Political Roots

by: Benson, Michaela; Munro, Rolland

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Copyright: 07/12/2011
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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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

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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Sociological Routes and Political Roots

Sociological Routes and Political Roots

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