The ongoing interconnection of the world through modern mass media is generally considered to be one of the major developments underpinning globalization. This important book considers anew the globalization phenomenon in the media sphere. Rather than heralding globalization or warning of its dangers, as in many other books, Kai Hafez analyzes the degree to which media globalization is really taking place. Do we have enough evidence to show that there is a linear and accelerated move towards transnationalization in the media? All too often the empirical data presented seems rather more...
The ongoing interconnection of the world through modern mass media is generally considered to be one of the major developments underpinning globalizat...
This important book considers anew the globalization phenomenon in the media sphere. Rather than heralding globalization or warning of its dangers, as in many other books, Kai Hafez analyzes the degree to which media globalization is really taking place.
This important book considers anew the globalization phenomenon in the media sphere. Rather than heralding globalization or warning of its dangers, as...
Social theory is the theoretical core of the social sciences, clearly distinguishable from political theory and cultural analysis. This book offers a unique overview of the development of social theory from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the present day. Spanning the literature in English, French and German, it provides an excellent background to the most important social theorists and theories in contemporary sociological thought, with crisp summaries of the main books, arguments and controversies. It also deals with newly emerging schools from rational choice to symbolic...
Social theory is the theoretical core of the social sciences, clearly distinguishable from political theory and cultural analysis. This book offers a ...
As two of the leading social scientists of the twentieth century, Alva and Gunnar Myrdal tried to establish a harmonious, "organic" Gemeinschaft community] in order to fight an assumed disintegration of modern society. By means of functionalist architecture and by educating "sensible" citizens, disciplining bodies, and reorganizing social relationships they attempted to intervene in the lives of ordinary men. The paradox of this task was to modernize society in order to defend it against an "ambivalent modernity." This combination of Weltanschauung world view], social science, and technical...
As two of the leading social scientists of the twentieth century, Alva and Gunnar Myrdal tried to establish a harmonious, "organic" Gemeinschaft comm...
As two of the leading social scientists of the twentieth century, Alva and Gunnar Myrdal tried to establish a harmonious, organic Gemeinschaft community] in order to fight an assumed disintegration of modern society. By means of functionalist architecture and by educating sensible citizens, disciplining bodies, and reorganizing social relationships they attempted to intervene in the lives of ordinary men. The paradox of this task was to modernize society in order to defend it against an ambivalent modernity. This combination of Weltanschauung world view], social science, and technical...
As two of the leading social scientists of the twentieth century, Alva and Gunnar Myrdal tried to establish a harmonious, organic Gemeinschaft commun...
