Political Sociology of World Society

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    Political Sociology of World Society

    The political sociology of world society is concerned not only with institutionalized modes of conflict resolution and regulation, but also with the limitations to which cross-border cooperation efforts are subject due to nation-state competition, the performance and legitimacy deficits of regulatory bodies, and social contestation and resistance.

  • Political Sociology of World Society

    This brings into sharper focus both the political forms that emerge from increasingly globalized processes of socialization and the local contexts in which the institutions of global governance must prove themselves. For example, transnational interest groups, diaspora communities, or global professional cultures found in the military, police, bureaucracy, or international organizations can have a significant impact on the success of instances of global governance.

  • Political Sociology of World Society

    Clashes between attempts to order politics and conflicting perceptions and judgments of those attempts materialize in various forms of opposition and resistance, both active and passive, in transnational relations. Against this background, the following main investigative questions arise for a political sociology of global society:

    How do different social groups react to the political and economic changes summarily referred to as "globalization"?

    Which "supporting strata" (Max Weber) support the international institutionalization of politics, and which interests and value systems oppose it?

    What specific mechanisms of power and (pre-)domination develop in the transnational space?

    In which language, with which references and with which discursive operations are opposition and resistance mobilized against individual institutions, but also against hegemonic discourses?

    How are…

  • Political Sociology of World Society

    In this research perspective, the InIIS deliberately opens up to other disciplines such as sociology, history and anthropology, whose contextual and detailed knowledge is indispensable for understanding conflict and cooperation in global society. The development of methods and theories with which this globalized politicization can be recorded, compared, and classified is a further goal of this research perspective; one focus is the theoretical, methodological, and empirical study of political discourses.