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Sociology beyond societies : mobilities for the twenty-first century /
Publisher description: John Urry argues that, if sociology is to make a pertinent contribution to the global era, it must abandon its original aim--the study of society as a set of institutions--and switch focus instead to the study of both physical and virtual movement. In considering this "so...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2000.
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| Colección: | International library of sociology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Publisher description: John Urry argues that, if sociology is to make a pertinent contribution to the global era, it must abandon its original aim--the study of society as a set of institutions--and switch focus instead to the study of both physical and virtual movement. In considering this "sociology of mobilities" the book concerns itself with the travel of people, ideas, images, objects, messages, waste products and money across international borders, and the implications these mobilities have for the experiences of time, space, dwelling and citizenship. Sociology beyond societies extends recent debate about globalisation both by providing an analysis of how mobilities reconstitute social life in uneven and complex ways, and by arguing for the significance of objects, senses, time and space in the theorising of global processes |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (255 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-231) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203190718 9780203190715 0203021614 9780203021613 9786610354269 661035426X 9780415190886 0415190886 9780415190893 0415190894 0203184262 9780203184264 1280354267 9781280354267 |