Sociologists may have outpaced political scientists in voting-behavior research

Evidence

Conviction that the constitutions and parliaments had initiated an epoch of “natural” “evolution”, that society had discovered its definitive, because rational, foundations, etc. And, lo and behold, society can now be studied with the methods of the natural sciences! Impoverishment of the concept of the State which ensued from such views. If political science means science of the State, and the State is the entire complex of practical and theoretical activities with which the ruling class not only justifies and maintains its dominance, but manages to win the active consent of those over whom it rules, then it is obvious that all the essential questions of sociology are nothing other than the questions of political science. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 915 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: All essential questions of sociology collapse into questions of political science — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 915; Political science and psychology share unusually sustained interdisciplinary exchange despite closer neighbors

Broader Connections

• All essential questions of sociology collapse into questions of political science #complicates (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 915