The Frontiers of Sociology (RLE Social Theory) by Tosco Raphael Fyvel

Author:Tosco Raphael Fyvel [Fyvel, Tosco Raphael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138783089
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Publisher: London
Published: 1968-01-15T02:03:57+00:00

NOTES

1 Apart from some problems of bureaucracy this is probably the most debated theme of political sociology at the time of writing. The notion of the end of ideology seems to owe its origin to Raymond Aron, ‘Fin de l’age idéologique?’, in Adorno and Dirks (eds.), Sociologica, 1955; and see Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology, Free Press, 1961; S. M. Lipset, Political Man, Heinemann, 1960; E. A. Shils, ‘The End of Ideology?’, in Encounter, November 1955; G. Lichtheim, The New Europe, Praeger, 1963; U. Himmelstrand, ‘A Theoretical and Empirical Approach to . . . Depoliticization’, Acta Sociologica, 1962; R. E. Lane, Political Ideology, Free Press, 1962; G. Vedel (ed.), La Dépolitisation, Mythe ou Réalité?, Armand Colin, 1962.

2 For elaboration see S. M. Lipset, ‘Political Sociology’, in R. K. Merton (ed.), Sociology Today, Basic Books, 1959; David Easton, ‘An Approach to the Analysis of Political Systems’, World Politics, 1957; E. A. Shils, ‘On the Comparative Study of New States’, in C. Geertz (ed.), Old Societies and New States, Free Press, 1963; T. Parsons, The Social System, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951; G. Almond, ‘Comparative Political Systems’, Journal of Politics, 1956; W. Kornhauser, The Politics of Mass Society, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959; D. Lerner, The Passing of Traditional Society, Free Press, 1958; The general ‘rubric’ for political sociology remains Max Weber’s famous typological analysis of authority in Theory of Social and Economic Organization, Free Press, 1957, on the one hand and his treatment of the structuring of power through social stratification in the essay ‘Class, Status and Party’, on the other. The more dynamic concept, ‘decision-making’, has recently emerged in conjunction with efforts to draw these two approaches together.

3 As, for example, in the American series of voting studies from P. Lazarsfeld et al., The People’s Choice, Columbia, 1944, to A. Campbell et al., The American Voter, Wiley, 1961, a series that includes Talcott Parsons’ masterly synthetic essay, ‘”Voting” and the Equilibrium of the American Political System’, in E. Burdick (ed.), American Voting Behavior, Free Press, 1959. But see too, the growing body of work on community power structures and decision-making, for example, J. S. Coleman, Community Conflict, Free Press, 1955, M. Janowitz (ed.), Community Political Systems, Free Press, 1960; or the work of S. Rokkan and others on political ‘participation’, for example, Approaches to the Study of Political Participation, Chr. Michelsen Institute, 1962.

4 For an exposition of the nature of political science based on this proposition, and for a succinct statement of the advantages of thinking in terms of roles rather than of individuals see, H. Eulau, The Behavioral Persuasion in Politics, Random House, 1961.

5 ‘Citizen Participation in Political Life’, International Social Science Journal, 1960, contains a set of such exercises; see also, M. Janowitz, ‘The Systematic Study of Political Biography’, World Politics, 1954; K. Deutsch, ‘Social Mobilization and Political Development’, American Political Science Review, 1961; for a fine example of the secondary uses of such data see, R. E. Lane, Political Life, Free Press, 1959; the pioneering work, of course, is H.

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