Political Sociology. during the past two decades or so collaboration between political Science ant Sociology has been increasingly emphasized and the sociological foundation of politics stressed. As pointed out earlier, the revolution in the study of American politics is the consequence of the penetration of sociological, anthropological and psychological methods and theories. There is the social and cultural matrix of politics. Explaining it, Pennock and Smith say, “Some politically relevant patterns of behavior are imposed on man by the conditions of social life itself and certain paychological traits are brought out by society which in turn determine the social milieu.”