From modern to post-modern politics(Effects of conceptual developments on the field of comparative political sociology)field of comparative political sociology)

In this paper, the writer explores the effects of the developments in the conceptual atmosphere of the terms politics and power from modern to postmodern eras on the comparative political sociology. To do so, the writer first discusses how the denotations and the conceptual atmosphere governing the terms under study have changed. The discussion shows that in line with politicization of non-political modern phenomena such as social and cultural issues in the post-modern theoretical framework (with emphasis on Foucault’s ideas), political sociology and, as a result, comparative political sociology have extended both in terms of subject matter and scope, using comparative methods. In addition, the extension of the borders of politics has caused the borders with those of other disciplines to fade, making them more and more dependent on each other.