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 1930's 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