Political Sociology

Total Lectures

33

Outlining the nature and scope of the state-society relationship

Lectures

Outlining the nature and scope of the state-society relationship

The main concerns of Political Sociology: State, Class, Status, Ideology and Power

Historical development of the discipline

Political sociology in the Indian Context

Ruling class, State Power and the Ideology of class struggle

Gramcian intervention, hegemony and domination

Civil Society, Political Society and the Reproduction of Class Structures

Miliband, poulantzas and laclau on the advanced capitalist state

Habermas public sphere

Basic concept of Domination, Legitimation, Authority and Bureaucracy

Knowledge as power and bio-power

Discipline, surveillance and governability

Earnest Gellner and Benedict Anderson on the Nation and Nationalism

Partha Chatterji on Derivative Nationalism

T.H. Marshall: Citizenship and Social Class

Gender and nation by Nira Yuval-Davis

Ethnography, State and the Colonial Episteme

The making of Hinduism in colonial India

Dominance without hegemony

The Nation and its Fragments

Class, Passive revolution and Indian Democracy

Development, rights and the poor

Governmentality and the patron- client state

Political society and the contestation of legality

Partition, Communalism, and Communal riots

Casteism, Anti-Brahmin Movements and Indian Politics

Regionalism, Self Determination and Ethnic Chauvinism

Violence against women, feminism and politics

Identity Politics: Insiders and Outsiders

Glocalisation.... Global, Local and the Political

Electoral democracy and its disenchantment

Non-Political Political Fronts and Grassroots Alternatives

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