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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Political Sociology"”.
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The Immigration Act of 1952; A Case Study in Political Sociology
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The movement for the restoration of democracy in Bangladesh, 1982-1990 : a study of political sociology
… of the military intrigue over the state and political elites has resulted in sharp inter-group conflict in the society that deflected the normal democratic values: liberty, impunity, equality and freedom. A military committed to a professional rather than a political role is critical to the …
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Unstable Foundations: Class Realignment, Class Formation and Its Political Articulation in an Urban Working-Class Periphery
… markers, and what limitations social democratic political organisations face when appealing to them. The underlying processes affecting class realignment of the working-class, understood as the reshuffling of partisan loyalties characterising classes at certain periods and places, are addressed …
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Insecurity as Imagination: Securitization and Reproduction of Knowledge about Insecurity, The United States and Iraq (January 2002 – March 2003)
This dissertation is a political sociology of production of knowledge about insecurity that focuses on the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003 as its empirical study. Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology and the insights of Critical Discourse Analysis, it analyzes the media coverage of Iraq …
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Expert Interventions for Democracy: The Historical and Epistemological Foundations of International Democracy
… debates spanning the intersections of the sociology of knowledge, political sociology and international development studies by asking an ancient question. How can democracy be a collection of popular political ideals, yet also the object of specialized, technical or social scientific …
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Patriarchal theory reconsidered: torture and gender based violence in Turkey
… mostly explores alternative approaches towards political sociology and its intersection with gender theory. The thesis adopts a multi-level analysis that involves the different manifestations of the ruler-subject binary at the societal and interpersonal levels of analysis. The so-called private …
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Varieties of base contestation: anti-U.S. base protests in South Korea and Japan
… in every corner of the world, the local political dynamics they generate remain surprisingly understudied. This project sheds light on different levels of local contestation confronting American military outposts overseas – a puzzle left unanswered by existing studies where prominent …
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A Structural Explanation for Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
… sentiment builds upon prevailing theories within political sociology, which center on the role of the state (Evans et al. 1985; Scott 1998; Skocpol 1979). While scholars have long acknowledged the role of the state in the regulation of immigration flows and their incorporation (Brubaker 1992; …
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The development of sociology first degree courses at English universities, 1907-1972
… historical account of the development of sociology first degree courses at English universities, 1907-1972, begins with the background to the endowment, in 1907, of the first chairs of sociology, at the London School of Economics. The archives of the School, and of the University of …
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"Segurança pública não é só polícia!": segurança e participação social em relação ao policiamento comunitário na cidade de Aracaju
… research with theoretical support in the Political Sociology; semi structured interviews with population members of the chosen districts and public managers involved with the community policing in the state; And involved observation in meetings of the safety council of the studied …
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Citizen youth : culture, activism, and agency in an era of globalization
… The theoretical framework bridges cultural and political sociology with youth cultural theory. It also draws heavily upon the work of feminist philosophers of agency and the state. The main methodology is ethnographic, and was carried out within a phenomenological and hermeneutic framework. In …
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Boom and gloom: comparing diverse development outcomes among oil- and mineral-dependent developing countries
… on theories of globalization, development, and political sociology, this dissertation addresses: Why do some oil- and mineral-dependent developing countries end up with relatively high levels of development while others remain underdeveloped? To answer this question, my research uses a …
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Making evidence, making legitimacy : the introduction of HPV (Human Papillomavirus) vaccines in Colombia
… that these practices are not isolated from the political and cultural practices and discourses that constitute a policy. On the contrary, these elements constantly reshape calculation practices by configuring affective economies in relation to policy objects. Drawing on material semiotics of …
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The political economy of conflict between indigenous communities and dominant societies: adivasis, Maoist insurgents and the state in the central Indian tribal belt
This thesis aims to understand the political sociology of Maoist insurgency in India using a combination of disaggregated statistics and qualitative data. The vast majority of insurgent leaders are from dominant or upper caste, middle class backgrounds. Their participation in the insurgency can be …
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Political Emotions: Toward a Fresh Perspective on Collective Emotion in Composition Work
… dissertation examines theories of emotion in politically contentious discourse in order to better understand the implications for teachers and students in composition classrooms where critical pedagogical practices lead to contentious political work. I suggest that partly as a result of the …
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Political development: a theoretical and empirical examination of the role of urbanization
… in major theoretical and empirical works on political development. The examination takes place at three analytical levels: meta-theoretical, theoretical, and empirical; it is conducted utilizing a framework resulting from a reconstruction of philosophical works on concept formation, theory …
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Alternative explanations of social mobility and political behavior
<p>The review of the literature on political behavior of intergenerationally mobile Americans suggests that mobile individuals, as aggregates, take on an intermediate political position between manual and non-manual stable groups. This finding has been interpreted as an indication of an …
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J18: movements towards an ethico-aesthetic paradigm
This thesis offers a materialist account of political action from the perspective of the aesthetic, focusing on a global day of action, protest and carnival staged to coincide with the G8 Summit on June 18th 1999. An event known as J18. Part One begins with a review of contemporary literature …
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Exploring the pattern of Islamic social movements : four case studies
… movements reveals the significance of the 'political sociology' of Iran's last hundred years. This dimention provides an understanding of some of the 'initial conditins' which underpin the Iranian social movements. The thesis attempts to outline some crucial elements in this sociopolitical …
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Chasing Tickets: Party Politics, Corruption and Municipal Elections, New Delhi
… election of 2017. By exploring the inner political world of the party and the race for election tickets in the organisation’s complex and multi-layered hierarchy, the study tries to explicate the small steps of political candidacy in municipal level politics. It offers a sociological …
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