Political sociology / Mandeep Raj Shami.

1. Introduction
2. Political sociology : Nature and scope
3. Concept of political sociology
4. Democratic politics, legitimacy and youth participation
5. The changing political economy of federalism in India
6. The political sociology of civil society
7. Political sociology and postmodernalism
8. Sociological institutionalism and world society

Political sociology is not simply a little political science that sociologists do on the side, but is an integral component of sociology. Without grounding itself firmly in this base, political sociology would lack a disciplined focus. It is sociology in the first place that provides the ground level orientation to scholars who proceed to specialize in political sociology. For this reason it is best to be aware of the basic charier of sociology, for only then one can fully appreciate what sociologists do when they specialize in political sociology.