This monograph explores the interplay between ideas of the political and the way that we, as sociologists, look at the phenomena that we study.
- Shows what empirical sociological enquiries into the political reveal on theoretical and conceptual levels
- Discusses how sociologists should study and understand a political environment
- Evaluates how the political intersects with current social identities and divisions
- Includes empirical and theoretical cases
Michaela Benson is a research assistant at the University of Bristol. She previously held the Sociological Review fellowship (2008-9), and is the author of
The British in Rural France (2011), and co-editor of the volume
Lifestyle Migration (2009).
Rolland Munro is Emeritus Professor at Keele University and was previously Director of the Centre for Social Theory & Technology, CSTT. He is internationally regarded for his path-breaking and interdisciplinary work on consumption, power and identity.