Bridgette Wessels

Exploring Social Change (eBook, PDF)

Process and Context

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A critical introduction to the key processes and contexts of social change in contemporary society, combining a thorough grounding of key theorists with hot topics such the media, the environment and new technologies - ideal for students across the social sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137471420
• Artikelnr.: 62734964

Autorenporträt

Bridgette Wessels is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Director of the Centre of Interdisciplinary Research in Socio-digital Worlds at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her research and writing focuses on social change and the innovation and use of digital services in everyday life.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Exploring Social Change
3. Key Periods of Change
4. Exploring Dimensions of Change
5. Everyday Life and Social Change
6. Work, Production and Social Change
7. Social Change and Consumerism
8. The Creative and Cultural Industries
9. Changes in Communication
10. Difference, Diversity and Contesting Power
11. Conclusion.