Revolution and counterrevolution : change and persistence in social structures / Seymour Martin Lipset.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I INTRODUCTION: COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY AND HISTORY -- Chapter 1 History and Sociology: Some Methodological Considerations -- PART II VALUE DIFFERENCES IN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE: CANADA, LATIN AMERICA, AND THE UNITED STATES -- Chapter 2 Revolution and Counterrevolution: The United States and Canada -- Chapter 3 Values and Entrepreneurship in the Americas -- PART III SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND POLITICS -- Chapter 4 Issues in Social Class Analysis -- Chapter 5 Class, Politics, and Religion in Modern Society: The Dilemma of the Conservatives -- PART IV {u2022} POLITICAL CLEAVAGES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- Chapter 6 Political Cleavages in "Developed" and "Emerging" Polities -- Chapter 7 The Modernization of Contemporary European Politics -- Chapter 8 Religion and Politics in the American Past and Present -- Chapter 9 The Right-wing "Revival" and the "Backlash" in the United States -- PART V {u2022} CONTINUITIES IN SCHOLARSHIP: THREE PIONEERS OF COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS -- Chapter 10 Harriet Martineau: A Pioneer Comparative Sociologist --Chapter 11 Moisei Ostrogorski and the Analytical Approach to the Comparative Study of Political Parties -- Chapter 12 Robert Michels and the "Iron Law of Oligarchy"

This collection of Lipset's major essays in political sociology is in a real sense a follow-up or sequel to Political Mind and The First New Nation. It provides a broad panorama of continuing interest, developing a sociological perspective in comparative and historical analysis, with particular reference to politics, modernization, and social stratification. Robert E. Scott in The Midwest Journal of Political Science, said "this book has an essential unity. The subjects discussed are interesting and important to the political scientists and the observations offered stimulating and significant. Both the student and the mature scholar can benefit." Professor Lipset describes this collection of his major essays in political sociology, as "in a real sense a follow-up or sequel to Political Man and The First New Nation. This volume provides a broad panorama of continuing interest, developing a sociological perspective in comparative and historical analysis, with particular reference to politics, modernization, and social stratification. The opening section of the book contains, in addition to a valuable new introductory chapter, essays that interpret varying levels of socioeconomic development in the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Other essays deal with such matters as the contrasting modes of modernization in Europe and Asia, the role of values and religious beliefs in the emergence of political systems, the effect of religion on American politics from the founding of the Republic to the present. A concluding section analyzes major works of political sociology in the light of contemporary ideas. Many chapters have been revised to include recent data. Seymour Martin Lipset is Munro Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford University, and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. Prior to his current appointment, he was Markham Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. Among his many books are Political Man; Agrarian Socialism; Consensus and Conflict in Political Sociology. In addition, he has co-authored The Politics of Unreason; Dialogues in American Politics; and Union Democracy.