Political Sociology
Meaning, Nature and Scope.
Introduction:
The Pol. Sociology is relatively a new discipline. As an independent discipline political sociology can be said to have emerged somewhere around the time of the First World War.
As the term implies, political sociology is a compound science or an interdisciplinary science. Science can also be divided in terms of periods to which they belong.
Definition
According to S.M Lipset, “he defined – “Political sociology as the study of the interrelationship between society and polity, between social structures and social instructions.”
According to Robert. E. Dowes and
John A.Hughes, he defines – “ as the study of political behavior
within a sociology perspective of framework.”
According to William C. Mitchell,
“Political Sociology would seem to be simply the sociological study of
politics.”
