SOC 226

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Political Sociology

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Credit: 3 hours.

This course provides an introduction to the study of political sociology, which, broadly conceived, is concerned with the social bases of power and the social consequences of the organization of power. If politics is, as famously suggested by Howard Lasswell, "who gets what, when, how," then our primary aim is to explain the emergence, reproduction, and transformation of different forms of political ordering.

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SOC 226 class schedule data for fall 2020
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	56314	Online Lecture	A	ARRANGED	n.a.	n.a.	Teimourigerdeh, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/20-12/09/20 Section Info: Traditionally, political sociologists were focused on the state, institutional politics, the elites, social movements, the citizenship question and so forth. The rise of the new social movements on the left and on the right in the past decade and the surge of new social media activism have problematized some core concerns of the traditional political sociology. Political sociologists used to ask: who gets to challenge the state? What is the relationship between the ruling class and political parties? Due to the rise of social media, however, social scientists have been asking some new questions: Did Facebook change the 2016 election results? If so, how? How can we make sense of the digital threat to democracies around the world? Why is populist authoritarianism on the rise and what is its impact, for example, on climate change? This course is more focused on the emerging modes of political contention. This is an asynchronous class. I post lecture videos and readings every week, and students are expected to read course materials and watch videos. More details about assignments, readings, zoom meetings, etc will be available on Moodle.