El posmodernismo se ve primero aquí en su superficie. La potencia del análisis sociológico de Lash desgaja luego el fenómeno en diversos aspectos hasta componer con estos un gran cuadro de conjunto que lo lleva a proponer una...
The theme of reflexivity has come to be central to social analysis. In this book three prominent social thinkers discuss the implications of "reflexive modernization" for social and cultural theory today.
The End of Organized Capitalism argues that - despite Marx's and Weber's insistence that capitalist societies become increasingly more ordered - we now live in an era of 'disorganized capitalism'. The book is devoted to a systematic examination...
Contemporary culture, todayâs capitalism - our global information society - is ever-expanding-- is ever more extensive . And yet we seem to be experiencing a parallel phenomenon which can only be characterized as intensive .
Tells the story of how material objects such as watches and sports wear have become powerful cultural symbols, and how the production of symbols, in the form of globally recognized brands, has become a central goal of capitalism. This book is suitable...
Lash y Urry estudian cuadros de socioeconomías contemporáneas. Consisten en procesos imperiosos y complejos cuyo desenvolvimiento vivimos como una trasformación por momentos devastadora, pero los autores buscan en ellos la potencialid...
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.