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
ECONOMIES OF OBJECTS AND SUBJECTS | 12 |
Core and periphery | 28 |
selfreflexivity in modernity | 37 |
Bodies and classifications | 44 |
the uses of allegory | 51 |
ECONOMIES OF SIGNS AND THE OTHER | 60 |
The Culture Industries | 107 |
disintegrated firms | 113 |
Conclusion | 142 |
Migration in Comparative Perspective | 171 |
ECONOMIES OF SPACE AND TIME | 193 |
Time and Memory | 223 |
GLOBALIZATION AND MODERNITY | 252 |
Globalization and Localization | 279 |
Conclusion | 314 |
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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 entails environment especially ethnic example exchange expert systems film finance firms flexible flows Fordist forms functions further 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 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 underclass Urry workers