Aeromobilities is a collection of essays that tackle in many different ways the growing importance of aviation and air travel in our hypermobile, globalized world. Providing a multidisciplinary focus on issues ranging from global airports to the production of airspace, from airline work to helicopters, and from movement in airports to software systems, Aeromobilities seeks to enhance our understanding of space, time and mobility in the age of mass air travel. From Sao Paulo to Sydney, Aeromobilities draws on local experiences of airspaces to generate theory and...
Aeromobilities is a collection of essays that tackle in many different ways the growing importance of aviation and air travel in our hyper...
How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21st century? What possibility post-carbon lifestyles?
In this provocative study of "life on the move," Anthony Elliott and John Urry explore how complex mobility systems are transforming everyday, ordinary lives. The authors develop their arguments through an analysis of various sectors of mobile lives: networks, new digital technologies, consumerism, the lifestyles of 'globals', and intimate...
How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and t...
Presenting a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life, this book combines an evaluation of different conceptions of the nature of science with an examination of important sociological theorists and frameworks.
Presenting a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life, this book combines an evaluation of diff...
* This is the first book to develop a proper sociology of climate change and will be an excellent companion to Tony Giddens' The Politics of Climate Change.
* This is the first book to develop a proper sociology of climate change and will be an excellent companion to Tony Giddens' The Politics of Climate C...
This book explores the significance of human behaviour to understanding the causes and impacts of changing climates and to assessing varied ways of responding to such changes. So far the discipline that has represented and modelled such human behaviour is economics.
This book explores the significance of human behaviour to understanding the causes and impacts of changing climates and to assessing varied ways of re...
Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion to the well-established and extensive international Transport and Society series. Each chapter, and the volume as a whole, offers closer and richer consideration of the issues, practices and structures of multiple mobilities which shape the current world but which have typically been overlooked or minimised. What this approach seeks to do is not only draw attention to many new areas of research and investigation relating to mobile lives, but...
Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion ...
First published in 1973, this is a reissue of John Urry's important and influential study of the theory of revolution.
Part 1 offers a detailed discussion of the concept of the reference group, tracing its development from the symbolic interactionist tradition and then showing how it came to be used in ways which emasculated some of the suppositions of that tradition.
Part 2 sets out a theory of revolutionary dissent, in which Dr Urry emphasizes the interconnection between analyses on the level of the social structure and the social actor.
The final...
First published in 1973, this is a reissue of John Urry's important and influential study of the theory of revolution.
There have been striking increases in both long-distance travel and in communications through mobile phones, text messaging, emailing and videoconferencing. Such developments in communication, along with a similar increase in physical travel and movement of goods around the globe, reconfigure social networks by disconnecting and reconnecting people in new ways. This original book puts forward one of the first social science studies of the geographies of social networks and related mobilities of travel, communications and face-to-face meetings. The book examines five interdependent mobilities...
There have been striking increases in both long-distance travel and in communications through mobile phones, text messaging, emailing and videoconfere...
There have been striking increases in both long-distance travel and in communications through mobile phones, text messaging, emailing and videoconferencing. Such developments in communication, along with a similar increase in physical travel and movement of goods around the globe, reconfigure social networks by disconnecting and reconnecting people in new ways. This original book puts forward one of the first social science studies of the geographies of social networks and related mobilities of travel, communications and face-to-face meetings. The book examines five interdependent mobilities...
There have been striking increases in both long-distance travel and in communications through mobile phones, text messaging, emailing and videoconfere...
This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy of science, presents a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life. This book combines an evaluation of different conceptions of the nature of science with an examination of important sociological theorists and frameworks. Originally published in 1975.
This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy...
