Summary Of "Conceptual Fundamentals Of Political Sociology" By Robert Dowse & John Hughes

We have summarized here the essential of this book by the author. POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY CHAPTER 2 CONCEPTUAL FUNDAMENTALS OF POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY 2.1 The problem of order The social order, the problem of permanence and change, have always been questioned. It is difficult to imagine social order without its opposite, social disorder. The approach to the problem from functional analysis and conflict theory was oriented towards order as a natural product of society and its rupture as the culmination of a situation of tension, respectively. Simple empirical observation establishes that societies tend mostly towards order and not chaos. The survival of society makes it move away from the feelings of threat or probability of death. The establishment of the laws ensures survival, further and further away from man's instincts, from natural life, isolated. This seems like a truism, but without them, there would be no incorporated company. But what is not presented as obvious is the creation and maintenance of order when it represents a real problem, since it is not something that is already given. This is what is problematic for the sociologist, as this breakdown of order represents something symptomatic in society.