ABSTRACT
The rise of political sociology has been announced from two sources: the survey researchers who have come to employ electoral and opinion data as the basis for determining the beliefs of men, and the grand European theorists who have announced a century of total politics. The preor-dainment of historical outcomes is supposedly much more important and verifiable than the outcomes of the capriciousness of leaders such as Louis XIV. According to Raymond Aron, the people of the late nineteenth century transformed political realities into myths: the myth of the revolution and the myth of the proletariat. The model of African states increasingly emerged as a uniparty in which the party process is linked to the ideological system. Americans continue to treat politics as if it has to do exclusively with parties. Political scientists often do not deal with politics, but with voter data.
