Economies of Signs and Space - Couverture souple

Lash, Scott; Urry, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803984723 ISBN 13 : 9780803984721

Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

This is a novel account of social change that supplants conventional understandings of `society' and presents a sociology that takes as its main unit of analysis flows through time and across space.

Developing a comparative analysis of the UK and US, the new Germany and Japan, Lash and Urry show how restructuration after organized capitalism has its basis in increasingly reflexive social actors and organizations. The consequence is not only the much-vaunted `postmodern condition' but also a growth in reflexivity.

In exploring this new reflexive world, the authors argue that today's economies are increasingly ones of signs - information, symbols, images, desire - and of space, where both signs and social sub

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Professor Scott Lash is the Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, as well as a a project leader in the Goldsmiths Media Research Programme. He is a leading name within sociology and cultural studies, has written numerous books and articles over the last twenty years, and is currently the managing editor for the journal Theory, Culture and Society.

His main research in recent years has been in advocating and developing a new paradigm for the social sciences, the new mobilities paradigm

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803984723
• ISBN 13: 9780803984721
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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