Revolution and Counterrevolution: Change and Persistence in Social Structures

Abstract

This collection of Lipset's major essays political sociology is a real sense a follow-up or sequel to Mind and First New It provides a broad panorama of continuing interest, developing a sociological perspective comparative and historical analysis, with particular reference to politics, modernization, and social stratification. Robert E. Scott Midwest Journal of Science, said book has an essential unity. subjects discussed are interesting and important to the political scientists and the observations offered stimulating and significant. Both the student and the mature scholar can benefit. Professor describes this collection of his major essays political sociology, as in a real sense a follow-up or sequel to Political Man and The First New Nation. This volume provides a broad panorama of continuing interest, developing a sociological perspective comparative and historical analysis, with particular reference to politics, modernization, and social stratification. opening section of the book contains, addition to a valuable new introductory chapter, essays that interpret varying levels of socioeconomic development the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Other essays deal with such matters as the contrasting modes of modernization Europe and Asia, the role of values and religious beliefs the emergence of political systems, the effect of religion on American politics from the founding of the Republic to the present. A concluding section analyzes major works of political sociology the light of contemporary ideas. Many chapters have been revised to include recent data. Seymour Martin Lipset is Munro Distinguished Professor of Science and Sociology at Stanford University, and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. Prior to his current appointment, he was Markham Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. Among his many books are Political Man; Agrarian Socialism; Consensus and Conflict Sociology. In addition, he has co-authored The Politics of Unreason; Dialogues American Politics; and Union Democracy.