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Teaching Fellow
“POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY”
(SOCY S233)
Instructor of Record: Professor Huseyin Rasit
In its essence, political sociology is the study of social power. Because the modern state has come to occupy our imaginations with its vast reservoir of power, social power is also commonly associated with it. But power is produced and sustained in a wider field well beyond the state. It operates through class, race, gender-based systems of domination, both structurally and in everyday interactions. It has been shaped in the modern history by the processes of capitalism and nation-state formation. Internationally, it has been skewed heavily towards the West through imperial and colonial domination. Some of these elements and processes are commonly ignored when discussing political sociology and power. We will instead problematize both the notion of power and the ways within which it operates. The aim here is to broaden our lenses beyond the naturalized understandings we possess today about state, capitalism, and international structures while acquiring the knowledge of the foundational concepts of political sociology.
Role: Grader (with contact)
Students: 25