Introduction: politics and social theory. -- Vocabularies of the state. -- Marxism, democracy and the public sphere. -- Class analysis as social theory. -- States, populations and productivity: towards a political theory of welfare states. -- Foucault: power and politics. -- Women, welfare and the politics of need interpretation. -- Socialism as a sociological problem. -- Postmodernity and contemporary social thought.

1. Politics. Theories
2. Political science
3. Social sciences