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18 INTRODUCING SOCIOLOGY Pierre Bourdieu wrote in 1998. Sociology and Political Science As in the case of economics, there is an A true economic science would look at all the costs of the economy-not increased interaction of methods and only at the costs that corporations approaches between sociology and are concerned with, but also at political science. Conventional political crimes, suicides, and so on. science was focused primarily on two We need to put forward an elements: political theory and economics of happiness, which government administration. Neither would take note of all the profits, branch involves extensive contact with individual and collective, material political behaviour. The theory part and symbolic, associated with activity (such as security), and also usually focuses on the ideas about government from Plato to Marx while the material and symbolic costs courses on administration generally associated with inactivity or deal with the formal structure of precarious employment (for example consumption of medicines: France government rather than its actual holds the world record for the use operation. of tranquilisers), (cited in Swedberg Sociology is devoted to the study of all aspects of society, whereas 2003). conventional political science Sociology unlike economics usually restricted itself mainly to the study of does not provide technical solutions. power as embodied in formal organisation. Sociology stresses the But it encourages a questioning and critical perspective. This helps interrelation ships between sets of questioning of basic assumptions. And institutions including government, thereby facilitates a discussion of not whereas political science tends to turn attention towards the processes within just the technical means towards a the government. given goal, but also about the social desirability of a goal itself. Recent However, sociology long shared trends have seen a resurgence of similar interests of research with economic sociology perhaps because of both this wider and critical perspective of sociology. Activity 8 Sociology provides clearer or more Find out the kind of studies that adequate understanding of a social were conducted during the last situation than existed before. This can general elections. You will probably be either on the level of factual find both features of political science knowledge, or through gaining an and sociology in them. Discuss how improved grasp of why something is disciplines interact and mutually happening (in other words, by means of theoretical understanding). influence each other. Reprint 2026-27