政治社会学是对权力的跨学科研究，是人格、社会和政治的交叉。该领域还研究了主要社会趋势如何影响政治进程，以及各种社会力量如何改变社会政策。
政治社会学家越来越多地使用各种相对较新的定量和定性方法，并纳入其他社会科学同源学科的理论和研究。撰稿人关注当前围绕使用不同方法研究政治和社会的争议和分歧，并讨论在广泛散见的文献中发现的具体应用，这些文献发表了该领域的实质性研究。这一方法将使本手册稳固地处于当前各卷未占据的市场利基，同时也涵盖了其他各卷所涵盖的许多相同的理论和历史发展。
本手册旨在总结政治和社会研究中使用的最新理论、研究和方法。这一研究领域涵盖了跨越社会科学学科的各种视角和方法。该手册旨在反映内容、方法和重点的多样性。此外，它还将涵盖发达国家和不发达国家的发展。
Handbook of Politics: State and Society in Global Perspective
Political sociology is the interdisciplinary study of power and the intersection of personality, society and politics. The field also examines how the political process is affected by major social trends as well as exploring how social policies are altered by various social forces.
Political sociologists increasingly use a wide variety of relatively new quantitative and qualitative methodologies and incorporate theories and research from other social science cognate disciplines. The contributors focus on the current controversies and disagreements surrounding the use of different methodologies for the study of politics and society, and discussions of specific applications found in the widely scattered literature where substantive research in the field is published. This approach will solidly place the handbook in a market niche that is not occupied by the current volumes while also covering many of the same theoretical and historical developments that the other volumes cover.
The purpose of this handbook is to summarize state-of-the-art theory, research, and methods used in the study of politics and society. This area of research encompasses a wide variety of perspectives and methods that span social science disciplines. The handbook is designed to reflect that diversity in content, method and focus. In addition, it will cover developments in the developed and underdeveloped worlds.
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