QGis Pas-à-pas n°3 est le troisième tutoriel d'une série consacrée au logiciel SIG libre QGis. Conçu pour des utilisateurs débutants ne connaissant pas les logiciels SIG en général, ni QGis en part...
This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identi...
For the first time in history the entire planet is capitalist. Even the few remaining command economies are surviving or developing through their linkages to global, capitalist markets. Yet this is...
We shall start by recalling the fundamental structural tendencies of
monopoly capitalism in Western Europe in order to locate the
phenomenon of immigration within this specific social and economic
...
Social movements and grassroots organizations, as well as a variety of social actors, are trying to fill the current void of representation and legitimate policy making. A global civil society is i...
The unification of Europe is significant as a source of institutional innovation that may yield some answers to the crisis of the nation-state. This is because, around the process of formation of t...
An old axiom in urban sociology considers space as a reflection of society. Yet life, and cities, are always too complex to be captured in axioms. Thus the close relationship between space and soci...
I have been obsessed, and still am, with the same things from the very beginning of my career: social change and power relations. I always look first at the power relations that exist and second at...
What is sustainability? A city or ecosystem, or complex structure of any kind, is sustainable if its conditions of production do not destroy over time the conditions of its reproduction. It’s a sim...
Urban problems are increasingly becoming a political issue as the socialization of the means of production is accompanied by the increasing socialization of the means of consumption or, if one pref...
The public sphere is the space of communication of ideas and projects that emerge from society and are addressed to the decision makers in the institutions of society. The global civil society is t...
A process of structural transformation is underway in most societies. It
stems from the combined impact of a major technological revolution based around information technologies, the emergence of a...
Societies evolve and are transformed through a complex interaction of cultural, economic, political, and technological factors. In any given society, the available range of technological processes ...
The culture of engineering was the soul of the technological saga of the
industrial era. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was, perhaps, the world’s leading institution in the merger of sci...
The transformation of Russia, and of its geopolitical sphere of
influence, to a market economy is a fundamental process that will
reshape the European economy, and the global economy as well, in
th...
Over the past year or so, I have expanded my work in both areas of my current research. I have explored deeper the interaction between information technology and society,
some outcomes of which hav...
Because we need to know, and because people need to know, more than ever we need a sociology rooted in its scientific endeavor. Of course, it must have the specificity of its object of study, and t...
This volume explores the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its cultural and institutional diversity. By network society, we refer to the social structure that results from the interac...