Economies of Signs and Space

by John Urry and Scott Lash

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803984723
• ISBN13: 9780803984721
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"