Hugh Mackay, Wendy Maples, Paul Reynolds

Investigating Information Society (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This lively and engaging text introduces students to the major debates and data on the information society, and at the same time teaches them how to research it. It gives an overview of: * theorists of the information society, particularly Manuel Castells and Daniel Bell * social research methodologies, including positivist, interpretivist, critical and cultural * qualitative and quantitative research methods and criteria for social science evaluation. Drawing on a rich body of empirical work, it explores three core themes of information society debates: the transformation of culture through the information revolution, changing patterns of work and employment and the reconfiguration of time and space in everyday life. In exploring these, the reader is introduced through case-studies, activities, and questions for discussion, to the practicalities of doing social research and the nature of social science argument and understanding.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136452970
• Artikelnr.: 39704885

Autorenporträt

Authored by Mackay, Hugh; Maples, Wendy; Reynolds, Paul

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Hugh Mackay; Chapter 1 The information society: continuity or change?
Hugh Mackay; Chapter 2 Theories of the information society
Hugh Mackay; Chapter 3 Social science and the information society
Hugh Mackay
Paul Reynolds; Chapter 4 Researching the information society: methods and methodologies
Hugh Mackay
Paul Reynolds; Chapter 5 Culture
representation and identities
Wendy Maples; Chapter 6 New patterns of work and inequality
Hugh Mackay; Chapter 7 Time-space reconfiguration
Hugh Mackay; Conclusion
Hugh Mackay;