Mediations of social life in the 21st century

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Dahms, Harry F.
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014.
• Σειρά: Current perspectives in social theory ; v. 32.
• Θέματα: Social Science > Sociology > General.; Social Science > General.; Social theory.; Social forecasting, future studies.; Society & culture: general.; Sociology > Research.; Social sciences > Philosophy.; Social action.; Social change.

Since the beginning of the modern age, studies of ongoing transformations of social life, human sociality, and social relations and institutions have been at the forefront of social theory, alongside changes in politics, culture, and economy and links between all of the above. In the twenty-first ce...

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