Lecture 2: Themes and Issues in the Politics and Society of the Long 19 th Century Foundations of Modern Social and Political Thought

The Long 19 th Century Framed by revolution: from 1789 to 1917 An age of development: politics, economy and society An era of ideology Making sense of debate

Structures of analysis What is the unit of analysis? Authors Traditions, Themes and Issues Conceptual Arguments

Social class and the industrial order Industrialisation Understanding the new social order Understanding the political response Mass politics and revolution A Marxist teleology

Democratisation: enfranchisement, and reform Institutional reform: where and how? The republican heritage Identifying political cultures, orders and traditions A reformist teleology

Democratisation and mass politics The working class and political power The mediocrity of mass political life The rise of the state Nihilism, social psychology and the inevitability of conflict

The science of society: expertise and state development The new science of society A social basis in the middle class The construction of the modern state: bureaucracy, expertise and the iron cage

The new nation: nationalism, patriotism and the new Europe Republican war on the continent Imperialism and its discontents Exile, trade and information: a global age Empire made me?

Stories of Continuity The Enlightenment and After Anti-Enlightenment: Localism, Regionalism and Tradition Anti-Enlightenment: Religious Dissent

Conceptual Debates: Democracy From ridicule to reality Participatory and representative stories Social consequences and economic patterns

Conceptual Debates: Liberty Individual development in the era of mass politics Protection and the state: the inheritance of rights The protean concept: towards idealism Meanings and mechanisms: structures of governance

Conceptual Debates: State and Society The social order as determining the political order The political order as determining the social order The irrelevance of politics to society, or society to politics

Lectures Liberty and Democracy: Tocqueville, Bentham, Mill Civil Society and the State: Weber and Durkheim