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Section Number: 24 Title: New Developments in Political Sociology
Section Chair(s)
Name:
  Daniel GAXIE  
Institution:
  PARIS I (PANTHÉON-SORBONNE), Université de 
Address:
  Départment de Science Politique 17 rue de la Sorbonne 75231 PARIS 
Cedex 05 France 
Email:
  Daniel.Gaxie@??? 
Telephone:
   
Fax:
   
Section Outline:
  Distinctions are often drawn between sociology of politics, political 
sociology, and political science. In the political science field, 
scholars sometimes define themselves as sociologists or political 
sociologists. We currently speak of sociological concepts, hypotheses, 
and problematic. But what is a sociological approach to politics? What 
are the theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions of 
sociology to the study of politics? Scholars involved in this project 
are interested in the discussion of the most recent developments of the 
interactions between sociology and political science. Do founding 
fathers (Durkheim, Marx, Pareto, Weber) and sociological traditions 
(structuralism, interactionism, ethnomethodology, constructivism, frame 
analysis, historical sociology) still influence current political 
science? How contemporary sociologists' works (Becker, Bourdieu, Elias, 
Garfinkel, Giddens, Goffman, or others) are used in political science 
research? What has been drawn from current sociological methodologies 
(analysis of correspondence, in depth interviews) and empirical 
sociological studies?
Two types of panels - empirical and theoretical - would be organized 
within the section. A first type aims at assessing uses of sociological 
tools for the analysis of various political subjects. Henrik Bang 
(University of Copenhagen) is willing to convene a panel on The 
Political Sociology of Governance . Olivier Fillieule (University of 
Lausanne) would chair a panel on The Sociology of Collective Action. 
Daniel Gaxie (University of Paris) and Alfredo Joignant (University of 
Chile in Santiago) plan to discuss some results of Sociological 
Approaches to the Study of Voting Behavior. Alfio Mastropaolo 
(University of Turin) would like to focus on The Democratic Common 
Sense, notably on the understanding of what ordinary citizens mean by 
Democracy. Two German colleagues have been asked to organize panels on 
sociological approaches of respectively Political Parties and Political 
Elites . If people demonstrate their interest, Jean-Yves Dormagen 
(University of Paris) is ready to chair a panel on Historical Sociology 
of Politics, with possible contributions on subjects like 
transformations in elections and electoral practices, the construction 
of the State, and changes in collective actions and social movements. 
Other ideas in the same vein would be welcome.
Theoretical panels would focus on a given sociologist or on a 
sociological tradition. Erik Neveu (Political Studies Institute of 
Rennes) and David Swartz (Boston University) would invite papers that 
offer illustrations and explore the advantages and limitations of uses 
of Pierre Bourdieu's sociological tools for the analysis of politics. 
Niilo Kauppi (University of Helsinki) proposes to hold a panel on the 
uses of constructivist approaches by political scientists (from the 
classical topic of the construction of social problems to more recent 
constructivist analyses of European Union institutions and 
international relations). This section on New Developments in Political 
Sociology would welcome colleagues wishing to question the relevance or 
the influence of other national or international tradition of 
mobilization of sociological works in political science research (i. e. 
Norbert Elias in the Netherlands and France, or Anthony Giddens in the 
United Kingdom).
This section aims at opening new prospects of research intermingling 
theoretical, methodological, and empirical resources of sociology and 
political science. It could also be a first step in the creation of a 
standing group on political sociology.
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Tommaso Vitale
http://homepage.mac.com/tommaso.vitale/
Dipartimento di Sociologia e della Ricerca Sociale
Università di Milano Bicocca
via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8
20126 Milano
tel: ++39.02 6448 7538
fax: ++39.02 6448 7561
home: ++39.02 36555384
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