Economies of Signs and SpaceSAGE, 9 dic 1993 - 368 pagine 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 subjects - refugees, financiers, tourists and fl[ci]aneurs - are mobile over ever greater distances at ever greater speeds. |
Sommario
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Part 2 Economies of Signs and the Other | 60 |
The Culture Industries | 111 |
The Underclass and Impacted Ghettoes | 145 |
Migration in Comparative Perspective | 171 |
Part 3 Economies of Space and Time | 193 |
Chapter 9 Time and Memory | 223 |
Part 4 Globalization and Modernity | 252 |
Chapter 11 Globalization and Localization | 279 |
Chapter 12 Conclusion | 314 |
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Economies of Signs and Space Professor Scott M Lash,Scott Lash John Urry,Professor John Urry Anteprima limitata - 1993 |
Parole e frasi comuni
abstract aesthetic reflexivity American analysed areas argues banks become Britain British cent central centres chapter cities cognitive companies complex consumer consumption contemporary context corporatism corporatist countries culture industries disintegration disorganized capitalism economy effects employees employment environment especially ethnic Europe European example exchange expert systems film finance firms flexible flows Fordist forms functions Gastarbeiter Germany ghetto Giddens global global cities governance growth hermeneutic hierarchies high modernity images immigrants important increased increasingly individual information structures innovation institutions involved Japan Japanese keiretsu labour markets large numbers London manufacturing migration mobility modern nation-state nature neo-tribes networks objects ontological security organized capitalism particular political post-Fordism post-Fordist post-industrial post-organized capitalist postmodern producer services production systems reflexive modernization relationship restructuring risk society role sector sense social sort space spatial symbolic temporal time-space tourism tradition transformed Urry workers