ABSTRACT
The articulation between universality and particularity which is constitutively inherent to the construction of a 'people' is not something which takes place just at the level of words and images: it is also sedimented in practices and institutions. A Sociology of Postmarxism is located within the broad field that can be called political sociology. A Sociology of Postmarxism seeks to develop the idea that the social is crucial to politics. In other words, that cooperation is crucial to the development, maintenance and withdrawal of power plus legitimacy within societies. Political sociology has a history of articulating an understanding of politics as the development, implementation and maintenance of power as it extends beyond the state. This idea of overdetermination or the "overdetermination of social relations" has importance to postmarxism and, as such, to a sociology of postmarxism because it recognises the impact of the multiplicity of discourse, as well as, signification upon the constitution of social meaning/identity and relations.
