This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society. Beck offers an illuminating account of the changing nature of power in the global age and assesses the influence of the ever-expanding counter-powers.
The author puts forward the provocative thesis that in an age of global crises and risks, a politics of "golden handcuffs" - the creation of a dense network of transnational interdependencies - is exactly...
This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, na...
In The Reality of the Mass Media, Luhmann extends his theory of social systems--applied in his earlier works to the economy, the political system, art, religion, the sciences, and law--to an examination of the role of mass media in the construction of social reality. Luhmann argues that the system of mass media is a set of recursive, self-referential programs of communication, whose functions are not determined by the external values of truthfulness, objectivity, or knowledge, nor by specific social interests or political directives. Rather, he contends that the system of mass media is...
In The Reality of the Mass Media, Luhmann extends his theory of social systems--applied in his earlier works to the economy, the political syst...
Desperate to stand out in a family of overachievers, beautiful, bigoted, and bitchy Carmen DuPre will do anything to leave the "hellhole" high school she works in-even if it means getting groped by a geezer who's promised her a promotion. She's not worried about things getting out of hand though-if there's one thing Carmen knows, it's how use her looks to get what she wants-including courtside Lakers seats and diamond jewelry-from attentive men she cares nothing about. But when a devastating medical diagnosis threatens to permanently knock her off her pedestal, Carmen might have to trade her...
Desperate to stand out in a family of overachievers, beautiful, bigoted, and bitchy Carmen DuPre will do anything to leave the "hellhole" high school ...
In The Reality of the Mass Media, Luhmann extends his theory of social systems--applied in his earlier works to the economy, the political system, art, religion, the sciences, and law--to an examination of the role of mass media in the construction of social reality. Luhmann argues that the system of mass media is a set of recursive, self-referential programs of communication, whose functions are not determined by the external values of truthfulness, objectivity, or knowledge, nor by specific social interests or political directives. Rather, he contends that the system of mass media is...
In The Reality of the Mass Media, Luhmann extends his theory of social systems--applied in his earlier works to the economy, the political syst...
