Sociology beyond societies : mobilities for the twenty-first century / John Urry.

By:

Urry, John

Material type: Text

TextSeries: International library of sociologyPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (255 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0203190718
9780203190715
0203021614
9780203021613

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sociology beyond societies.DDC classification:

301/.01 21

LOC classification:

HM585 .U77 2000eb

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

1. Societies -- 2. Metaphors -- 3. Travellings -- 4. Senses -- 5. Times -- 6. Dwellings -- 7. Citizenships -- 8. Sociologies.

Summary: 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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Title notes ( 5 )

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
eBook	e-Library	EBSCO Social Science		Available

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-231) and index.

Print version record.

1. Societies -- 2. Metaphors -- 3. Travellings -- 4. Senses -- 5. Times -- 6. Dwellings -- 7. Citizenships -- 8. Sociologies.

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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