Economies of Signs and Space
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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
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803984723
ISBN13:9780803984721
Release Date:January 1994
Publisher:Sage Publications UK
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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