SOC 456 - Power and Politics

SOC 100, at least junior standing; or consent of instructor. (3).

Issues, debates and research constituting the subdiscipline of political sociology. General overview of such core concepts as power, interests and the state; additional topics including processes of state formation in historical and comparative perspective, revolutions and peasant revolts, social movements, the problem of collective action, and the sociology of democratic politics. Graded ABCDE.