Global complexity / John Urry.

By:

Urry, John

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Malden, MA : Polity, 2003Description: p. cmISBN:

0745628176 (hbk.)
0745628184 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

327.1/01/1857 21

LOC classification:

JZ1249 .U77 2003

Contents:

1. 'Societies' and the Global -- 2. The Complexity Turn -- 3. Limits of 'Global' Analyses -- 4. Networks and Fluids -- 5. Global Emergence -- 6. Social Ordering and Power -- 7. Global Complexities.

Review: "This book combines new theory with many illustrations of how global processes operate. Urry distinguishes between 'global networks' and 'global fluids', and shows how forms of global emergence develop from the complex relationships between these networks and fluids. He draws out the implications of global complexity for our understanding of social order and argues that complexity requires us to reformulate the main categories of sociology and to reject any globalization thesis that is over-unified, dominant and unambiguous in its effects. Global systems are always 'on the edge of chaos'." "This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of sociology, politics, geography and economics, and to all those concerned with rethinking the nature of globalization."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	327.1011857 URR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A258605B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. 'Societies' and the Global -- 2. The Complexity Turn -- 3. Limits of 'Global' Analyses -- 4. Networks and Fluids -- 5. Global Emergence -- 6. Social Ordering and Power -- 7. Global Complexities.

"This book combines new theory with many illustrations of how global processes operate. Urry distinguishes between 'global networks' and 'global fluids', and shows how forms of global emergence develop from the complex relationships between these networks and fluids. He draws out the implications of global complexity for our understanding of social order and argues that complexity requires us to reformulate the main categories of sociology and to reject any globalization thesis that is over-unified, dominant and unambiguous in its effects. Global systems are always 'on the edge of chaos'." "This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of sociology, politics, geography and economics, and to all those concerned with rethinking the nature of globalization."--BOOK JACKET.

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