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SOCI 254 - Political Sociology


Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3 SS

This course is intended as an introduction to a major sub-field of sociology, the sociology of politics. We will begin with an examination of the birth of democratic politics in the contemporary Western world. We will touch on such problems as the social origins of democracy, the rise of political citizenship and the modern nation-state, class and elite conflict, lower-class social movements and the political-cultural foundations of democratic politics. In the second part of the course we will concentrate on one of the major anti-liberal movements and regimes in the 20th century Nazism. Enrollment Limit: 35.
Instructor: V. Vujacic



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