We live in a time of protest. Relative to sociology, political science has traditionally paid little attention ‘extra-institutional’ forms behaviour. For its part, sociology tended prioritize the explanation mobilization processes over outcomes. Using bibliometric records from 14 and journals last two decades, this study demonstrates that protest witnessed resurgence interest both now share foc...

This issue of SER contains three articles on public sociology and economic sociology, which all have their origin in a session on this theme that was held at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in August 2006 in Montreal. The reason for organizing this session was a sense that ‘new economic sociology’ has ignored many of the issues that are associated with the term ‘publ...

This article focuses on the analysis of public opinions of the Ukrainian people on the nature, character, and characteristics of the citizens’ political activism during the Orange Revolution. The author analyzes data from the annual nationwide representative survey, conducted by the Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in February–March 2005. The time lag allows for t...

political legitimacy(legitimation - legitimization) is an important phenomenon and fact. therefore questions about؛ resources، origin، authority، basis، standards of political legitimacy are basic and permanent questions. good question is half of answer. therefore there are important questions about political legitimacy in all societies in the world wide(worldly/globality) and along the history...

The growing interest in public sociologies marks an increasing gap between the ethos of sociologists and social, political, and economic tendencies in the wider society. Public sociology aims to enrich public debate about moral and political issues by infusing them with sociological theory and research. It has to be distinguished from policy, professional, and critical sociologies. Together the...

∗This work was supported by the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences at the University of Washington with funds from the University Initiatives Funds. In addition, Quinn acknowledges research support under NSF Grant SES 01-36676. †Department of Political Science and CSSS, University of Washington, [email protected] ‡Department of Sociology, University of Washington, [email protected]...

Most research in public opinion and political sophistication relies on the assumption that Americans organize their political belief system according to the liberal and conservative categories. Yet not all of them do. We hypothesize that citizens’ sociodemographic profiles make them disposed to espouse different understandings of the political debate, and document systematic heterogeneity in Am...

one of the basic subjects in political sociology of every society is the nature of stat in that society. the states have different economical social culture and political nature. the essay studies the political nature of the state in studies the political nature of the state in iran during pahlavi period , from the view point of transition to democracy. the aim of study the political nature of ...

It is our contention that information technology is a cultural commodity whose influence is spread through economic and political action of institutions such as the government and corporations. Informed by Bourdieu’s sociology of language, we conduct a content analysis of political speeches regarding “digital opportunities” delivered by U. S. government officials. In this analysis we demonstrat...