Political sociology

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Part one subjects and concepts of Political Sociology Government, democracy and society Political socialization and political participation Ideology and political culture Political actors people, parties and social movements The new political structures Part two electoral poll and contemporary politics Electoral poll definition, brief history and main models - how to make a poll and how to analyze a poll Polls, Exit Pool and the analysis of electoral flows (introduction). Part three official statistics and politics at the era of Big Data Knowledge and decision making - Mental processes and statistical information The useful of statistics in the age of information Information and political decision Web 2.0 and the data deluge: toward a 2.0 Statistics Part Four: science, technology and power Science, technology, society and power technocracy Progressive technocracy and neo liberal technocracy Who are the technocrats? Technocratic power Social Datafication and technocracy Rationality, rationalization and technocracy.