Authority, Power and Social Structure

Course content

This course discusses the concepts of political sociology in the light of recent literature and critically analyzes their theoretical/empirical significance. Some of the topics of concern are the role of individual in society and politics, alienation in industrial society, middle class politics and its relevance to present day political systems, theories of mass society, the role of ideology in shaping the society and politics, the nature of power in industrial society, and corporatism and neo-corporatism.