Sylabus
* code for microsoft teams: p3ykhjz Structure of Lessons:
1. Sociology of politics versus political sociology.
2. Forms of social organization of power. Tribes, chieftains, states.
3. The emergence of early states.
4. Patrimonial and feudal political systems.
5. The development of feudalism according to Perry Anderson.
6. Oriental political systems, oriental despotism, the Asian way of production.
7. Imperial systems, Eisenstadt’s theory of historical-bureaucratic empires.
8. Absolutism and absolutist systems.
9. Elias’ theory of royal monopoly.
10. The political sociology of Barrington Moore Jr.
11. Theory of elite: Pareto, Mosca.
12. Theory of political fission: Lipset, Rokkan.
13. Theory of political parties: Weber, Michels, Ostrogorski * Required reading: - WEBER. M. Economy and Society. An Outline of Interpretative Sociology. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1978. ISBN 978-0520028241. * Recommended reading: - ANDERSON P. Lineages of the Absolutist State. London: Verso,
1974. ISBN 978-0902308169. - ANDRESKI. S. The Uses of Comparative Sociology. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1964. ISBN
0520000242. - LEWELLLEN. T. C. Political Anthropology. An Introduction. Westport: Praeger Publisher,
2003. ISBN 978-0897898911. - MANN. M. The Sources of Social Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1986. ISBN
1107610419. - WITTFOGEL. K.A. Oriental Despotism. A Comparative Study of Total Power. New Heaven: Yale University Press,
1957. ISBN 978-0394747019.
Anotace
The aim of the lecture is to introduce fundamental notions and authors of historical sociology of politics to students.
The development of political systems from pre-state formations to modern states is presented. Emphasis is placed on the Weberian tradition.