Economies of Signs and SpaceSAGE Publications, 7 mar 1994 - 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 sub |
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ECONOMIES OF OBJECTS AND SUBJECTS | 12 |
Reflexive Subjects | 31 |
ECONOMIES OF SIGNS AND THE OTHER | 60 |
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Economies of Signs and Space Professor Scott M Lash,Scott Lash John Urry,Professor John Urry Anteprima limitata - 1993 |
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activities aesthetic American analysis argues banks become Britain British capitalist cent central centres chapter cities clock-time communication companies complex consumer consumption contemporary context corporatism corporatist countries culture industries disorganized capitalism economy effects employees employment environment environmental especially Esping-Andersen ethnic Europe European example expert systems finance firms flows Fordist forms functions Gastarbeiter Germany Giddens global global cities governance growth hermeneutic hierarchies high modernity holiday human images immigrants important increased increasingly individual information structures institutions involved Japan Japanese jus sanguinis labour force labour markets large numbers localities London manufacturing mass ment migration mobility modern nation-state nature neo-tribes networks objects ontological security organized capitalism particular political post-Fordist post-industrial postmodern producer services production systems reflexive modernization reflexivity relationship restructuring risk society role Sassen sector semiotic sense social space spatial symbolic temporal time-space tourism transformed Urry workers