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020			_a978-1412980401
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082			_a306.2 _bGLA/P
100			_aGlasberg,Davita
245		0	_aPolitical sociology: oppression, resistance, and the state/ _cDavita Glasberg
260			_aThousand Oaks: _bPine Forge Press, _c2011.
300			_axiv, 231p. _bill. _c23 cm.
505			_a1. Oppression, resistance, and the state : an introduction -- Systems of oppression and the state -- Structures of oppression : power, politics, and the state -- Political economy -- Patriarchy -- Racism -- Heteronormativity -- Structures of oppression and resistance -- 2. From the top down? Structure theories -- Pluralism -- Group pluralism -- Elite pluralism -- Critique of pluralism -- Power elite theory -- Critical assessment of power elite theory -- Class dialectic theory -- Critical assessment of class dialectic theory -- Poststructuralist theories of power -- Comparing power structure theories -- Meaning and dimensions of power -- 3 . Is this the best (or only) possible world? -- Oppression and socialization -- Oppression values and ideologies -- Individual rights, group interests, and oppression -- Political socialization -- Media -- Schools -- State -- Patriarchal socialization and gendered oppression -- Media -- Family -- Work -- Schools -- State -- Resistance to patriarchal oppression and socialization -- White superiority socialization and racist oppression -- Media -- Family -- Schools -- State -- 4. Power to the people? Voting and electoral participation -- Who votes? -- Why don't people vote? -- Social psychological explanations -- Structural explanations -- Political alienation -- Why are people politically alienated? -- Scandals in leadership -- Structure of the political process -- Racism in the electoral process -- Is there a gender gap? -- Radical objections to voting -- Power beyond voting -- Direct action -- Political action committees -- Soft money -- Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission -- Structural factors of power without voting -- 5. Who's in charge here? State and society -- Marxist theories of the state -- Instrumentalism/business dominance theory : "capture" or domination? -- Capitalist state structuralism -- Class dialectic perspective : "bringing class back in" -- State-centered structuralism : "bringing the stat back in" -- Anarchist theory -- Theories of the state and oppression -- 6. From the bottom up? -- Social movements and the state -- Defining social movements -- Explaining social movements -- Absolute and relative deprivation theories -- Resource mobilization -- Political process perspective -- Globalization and social movements -- Social movements and state theory -- 7. State policies and practices : racialized, class-based, and gendered oppression -- Toward a multidimensional view of the state, society, and oppression -- State projects -- Selectivity filters -- Balance of political and institutional forces -- Modeling a multidimensional view of the state, society, and oppression -- State and class-based oppression -- State projects of economic intervention and class oppression -- State and gendered oppression -- Gendering state projects -- State and heteronormative oppression -- State and racialized oppression -- Racial formation state projects -- Intersectionality of racialized, class-based, and gendered oppression and state projects.
650			_aOppression (Psychology)
650			_aPolitical sociology
650			_aSocial movements
942			_cWB16