Harold D. Lasswell on political sociology
By: edited and with an introd. by Dwaine Marvick.
Series: Heritage of sociology
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
Subjects: Political sociology
Notes: Bibliography: p. 425-443.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Elite analysis and the contextual approach: Shared subjectivity. Systemic analysis. Politics. The study of political elites.; title: The use of developmental constructs: The configurative analysis of world value pyramids. Skill politics and skill revolution. The garrison state. The world revolution of our time.; title: Political communications: The wartime propaganda front. The vocation of propagandists. The strategy of revolutionary propaganda. Style in political communications. Why be quantitative? Communications research and public policy.; title: Political psychiatry: A triple appeal principle. The psychology of Hitlerism. Politics, personality, and culture. Political constitution and character.; title: Intellectuals and the political process: Policy and the intelligence function. The choice of sanctioning norms. Prototyping new political practices. The perspectives of revolutionary intellectuals.