Sociology Compass. 2017;e12538. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12538 wileyon Abstract The study of urban poverty is alive and well in sociology. The study of urban politics, by contrast, has stagnated. Though scholars agree that politics shapes the creation and durability of urban poverty, analytical connections between the two subfields are rarely made explicit. In this article, I make the case ...

In December 2015, 195 countries adopted the Paris Agreement, which aims at a substantial reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to keep the increase in global average temperature to 2°C or less. The successful implementation of this global energy transition does not only depend on the development of new energy technologies, but also requires major changes in the patterns of individual energyrela...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the political, social and economic background of the divergence of Belarusian and Ukrainian transitions. We focus on Belarus in order to find explanation for questions such as why could Lukashenko remain the authoritarian leader of Belarus, while in Ukraine the position of the political elite had proved less stable and collapsed in 2004. On the theoretical fr...

This study examines the socio-political activities of habaib in East Java, Indonesia, which are heterogeneous and have different tendencies for affiliation among them. diversity work also underlies their respective sympathizers followers. type research is mixed (library field), with a critical-qualitative design. The approach used this political sociology. theory to analyze data behavior. found...

BACKGROUND The last two decades have seen a growing trend towards the research of voting behavior in post-communist countries. Urban sociology theorists state that not only space structures influence political participation, but also space structures are changing under the influence of global, local, and individual factors. The growing role played by information in the globalised world has acce...

since land reform in iran, rural studies and rural sociology have been concentrated on rural society as economical and political phenomena; therefore mostly traditional systems of production and power were noted in researches. one issue that was not addressed in this academic discourse was rural religion. religion as a core of culture and the main context to reproduce social integration has a k...

It is frequently acknowledged that the notion of ‘race’ is a socio-political construct that requires constant refurbishment. However, the process and consequences of racialization are less carefully explored. By examining the ideology about nationhood and colonial policies of the Japanese state in relation to Koreans, I will attempt to demonstrate why and how the Japanese state racialized its p...

The centenary of Max Weber's death raises the question wider significance 1920 as marking a break in history social theory. This essay focuses on Germany and Austria, where political with past was particularly sharp discontinuities intellectual configuration sciences were most obvious. Three trends are striking: development neo-Marxist theory GyĂśrgy LukĂĄcs Karl Korsch later emergence critical...

collapse of egyptian‘s old system and mubarak’s 30 years government, was making the hopes in the mind of revolutionaries that goals of revolution will be available.holding free election was one of these goals that with electing mohammed morsi from muslim brotherhoods for presidential office was accomplished. however, after a year, the elected president mohammed morsi was faced with the protests...