The Foundations of Criticizing and Rethinking the Political Sociology in Jacques Rancière's Thought

This study is about to investigate a dimension of the evolving meaning and its interaction with the political in the last decade through explaining the bases of criticizing and rethinking Jacques Rancière toward political sociology. The focal question of this research is that how and on the base of which signs, bases, categories and factors has political sociology been articulated in Rancière’s critical thought and how it’s been about to analyze and represent the real? To answer this question, the primary hypothesis is presented that is “political sociology in Rancière’s thought, in the shade of a special understanding of the concept anti-sociology, is articulated towards the construction and rethinking of the social on the base of presenting and rereading some ideas like emancipation, democracy, police, politics, archi-politics, aesthetics, political subject-making, the sensible etc.; and, in a dialectic and interaction that is generally negative to theoreticians like Pierre Bourdieu”. This comprehension of political sociology is about to have a transition from the convenient meanings and interpretations of this science (traditional, modern and even postmodern) and giving it more philosophical and interactive depth. This newly emerged tradition, which has representatives as Rancière, tries to formulate the meaning of the social in the post-globalization era.