Political sociology of politics or political sociology of the political?

An analysis of the possible objects of study of political sociology

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https://doi.org/10.21669/tomo.v43.19607

Keywords:

Political Sociology, Laclau and Mouffe, Populism

Abstract

The present work, which is theoretical by nature, addresses the conceptual dimension of political sociology. The text argues that there are two distinct possibilities of focus for political sociology: a political sociology of politics and a political sociology of the political. To distinguish both, we based the article on the post-structuralist theorization of Laclau and Mouffe and how the authors use such terms. As the political sociology of politics can be considered a more traditional form of political sociology, the text focuses on detailing what would be the political sociology of the political by showing a specific example of a category of analysis of the political to understand phenomena in social spheres that cannot be confused with the sphere of politics. This category is populism, managed for analyzing law, medicine, and religion.

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Igor Machado, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES)

He holds a bachelor's degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of Vitória (2004), a bachelor's degree and degree in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (2005), a master's degree in Sociology from the University Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro (2007) and a PhD in Sociology from Institute of Social and Political Studies at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2012), with a doctoral internship abroad, funded by CAPES, in the Government department of the University of Essex, United Kingdom. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and at the Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences at the Federal University of Espírito Santo. He has experience in the area of ​​Sociology, with an emphasis on Sociology of Law, working mainly on the following topics: law, democracy, judicialization of politics and social relations, sociological theory, political theory and Brazilian social and political thought.

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2024-03-13

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Machado, I. (2024). Political sociology of politics or political sociology of the political? : An analysis of the possible objects of study of political sociology. TOMO Review, 43, e19607. https://doi.org/10.21669/tomo.v43.19607

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Vol. 43 (2024): Continuous Publication

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Special Issue: Debates on Political Sociology today: theory and empirism

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