The Sociological Review Monographs 58/2: Sociological Routes and Political Roots: 06. This item is unavailable.The Sociological Review Monographs 58/2: Sociological Routes and Political Roots: 06

This monograph explores the interplay between ideas of the political and the way that we, as sociologists, look at the phenomena that we study. 

• Shows what empirical sociological enquiries into the political reveal on theoretical and conceptual levels
• Discusses how sociologists should study and understand a political environment 
• Evaluates how the political intersects with current social identities and divisions
• Includes empirical and theoretical cases 

Michaela Benson is a research assistant at the University of Bristol. She previously held the Sociological Review fellowship (2008–9), and is the author of The British in Rural France (2011), and co–editor of the volume Lifestyle Migration (2009).

Rolland Munro is Emeritus Professor at Keele University and was previously Director of the Centre for Social Theory & Technology, CSTT. He is internationally regarded for his path–breaking and interdisciplinary work on consumption, power and identity.