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Economies of Signs and Space
Critique of Information
This penetrating book raises questions about how power operates in contemporary society. It explains how the speed of information flows has eroded the separate space needed for …
Intensive Culture
Contemporary culture, today's capitalism - our global information society - is ever expanding, is ever more extensive. And yet we seem to be experiencing a parallel phenomenon …
Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity
This book brings together leading figures in history, sociology, political science, feminism and critical theory to interpret, evaluate, criticize and update Weber's legacy. In a …
China Constructing Capitalism
China has been growing at over ten per cent annually since 1978, but this has only come to very widespread notice in the past decade. This received wisdom about China has been …
Risk, Environment and Modernity
Do Fleas Sneeze? Buster and Frankie Lu, Story 1
Emergent Globalization
Spaces of Culture
In Spaces of Culture an international group of scholars examines the implications of questions such as: What is culture? What is the relationship between social structure and …
Global Culture Industry
In the first half of the twentieth century, Theodor Adorno wrote about the 'culture industry'. For Adorno, culture too along with the products of factory labour was increasingly …
Sociology of Postmodernism
This authoritative and revealing book provides the first sociological examination of postmodernism. Lash examines the differences between modernism and postmodernism, providing a …
Detraditionalization
The modernity and postmodernity debates of recent years have tended to direct attention towards frameworks of periodization, and away from the social and cultural processes …