Preface vii
I
THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
The Logic of
Political Sociology 5
Mass
Communications and the Political Process 36
II
SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND POLITICAL AFFILIATION
Social and
Political Consequences of Social Mobility 71
Social
Cleavage and Party Affiliation Germany Great Britain and the United States 88
III
MACROSOCIOLOGY AND ARMED CONFLICT
Military
Elites and the Study of War 119
Civil
Military Relations in the New Nations 135
IV
POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS
Native
Fascism in the 1930s 149
Patterns of
Collective Racial Violence 171
V
METHODOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS
Content
Analysis and the Study of the Political Environment 207
Community
Power and Policy Science Research 223
VI
SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND POLICY
Sociological
Models and Social Policy 243
The Ideology
of Professional Psychologists 260
Acknowledgments
269