Political sociology in an actual scientific reading 
(review of N.S. Kozyakova's textbook "Political Sociology")

The presented review of the textbook by Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Candidate of Political Sciences N.S. Kozyakova, published by INFRA-M publishing house in 2024, provides a general description and justifies the need for its publication for higher education in terms of an interdisciplinary approach of both political science and sociological disciplines. The key area of scientific interests of the textbook's author is the study of social aspects of politics and political science and the latest political history of Russia and foreign countries. The presented textbook "Political Sociology", recommended for undergraduates, undergraduates and postgraduates studying both political science and sociology, as well as other specialties, provides an assessment of the conceptual and categorical apparatus of political sociology, examines various types, roles and statuses of social institutions, social groups, their place and role in political life, personality typology. and the classification of human rights and freedoms, issues related to social mobility and stratification, the causes of, the course and resolution of socio-political conflicts (conflict strategies and tactics), as well as the problems of the development of society and power structures in the era of informatization, globalization and globalism. The author offers his vision of new trends and trends in political sociology affecting the sociology of imagination and postmodernity, characterized by alternative and multi-variant development of power structures and society caused by the emergence of a virtual environment characterized by simulations and simulacra. Kozyakova has published over 80 scientific papers on various issues of modern political and historical science over a period of more than twenty years of research and teaching.