This introduction frames key questions on biofuels, land and agrarian change within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. It identifies and explains big questions that provide the starting point for the contributions to this collection. We lay out some of the emerging themes which define the politics of biofuels, land and agrarian change revolving around global ...

Contributors to this panel discussion were asked to reflect, in less than 3,000 words, ‘on how, specifically or generally, Innovation Studies (broadly defined) might have or already does have potential for yielding distinctive critical perspectives or data (broadly defined) on issues beyond Innovation (or Science & Technology Studies). The intention is to use the Panel to generate discussions w...

organization theory is a discipline on the boundary between economics of organizations, sociology of organizations, management and political science. she is interested in organizations, both commercial and non-commercial, in all their diversity (company, hospital, union, organization, administration, conventions). it analyzes their functioning, structure and development for the purpose of bette...

The distinction between state and civil society is deeply rooted in both sociology and political theory (Barkey and Parikh 1991:525; Bobbio 1999:115; Habermas 1989:19). Even thinkers who argue that civil society and the state ‘interact’ often retain the basic conceptual opposition between the terms. Barkey and Parikh go so far as to characterize recent work on the state as “the state-society li...

The sociology of professions literature would predict that the contemporary state would not allow groups to continue unregulated or unreformed. However, this is indeed the case with the UK veterinary profession, with legislation dating back to 1966. Using an interdisciplinary analysis of published literature and reports, this paper assesses whether wider social, political and ethical dynamics c...

The evolution of studies of political parties of constitution: The first and second periods show that the evolution of parties indicates that researchers' attitude to political pheno-mena also coincide with the evolution of political realities has been transformed, and the consideration of ideologies in the analysis of the parties have replaced with religious perspectives and anti-authoritarian...

Building on Fox Keller’s acute genealogy of the nature–nurture opposition as located in a certain specific social, cultural, and political history in the late nineteenth century (2010), in this paper, I address a parallel problem: the making of a really modern (i.e., non-biological) sociology nearly at the same time as the “hard disjunction” (Keller, 2010) between heredity and the environment, ...

farabi has simultaniously deep philosopical debates and very clear literature in the area of political sciology. he analyses society as hierarchy. the features of temper and psychological and capabilities have been affected by that hierarchy which is desinged and leept by political leaders. therefore rule, leadership and politics are important from farabi`s view. but at the same time education ...