Manuel Castells is a Spanish sociologist known for his work on urban social movements and, later, for developing the concept of the network society. In early works such as The Urban Question (1972) and The City and the Grassroots (1983) he analyzed cities as sites of collective consumption and grassroots political mobilization rather than simply the product of market or planning logic. His major later work, the three-volume The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture (1996 to 1998), argued that the rise of digital information and communication technologies had reorganized economic, social, and political life around flexible, decentralized networks, producing a network society in which power increasingly operates through the ability to program and connect networks rather than through the older hierarchical structures of the industrial era.
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Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountDeveloped the concept of the network society, arguing that digital information and communication technologies reorganized economic, social and political life around flexible, decentralized networks rather than older hierarchical industrial structures. 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountThe Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture 1 Connections
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Manuel Castells Oliván (Catalan: [kəsˈteʎs]; born 9 February 1942) is a Spanish sociologist.
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Manuel Castells Oliván (Catalan: [kəsˈteʎs]; born 9 February 1942) is a Spanish sociologist.
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Manuel Castells Oliván (Catalan: [kəsˈteʎs]; born 9 February 1942) is a Spanish sociologist.
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Manuel Castells Oliván (Catalan: [kəsˈteʎs]; born 9 February 1942) is a Spanish sociologist.
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Manuel Castells was born on February 9, 1942, in the city of Hellín, in the La Mancha region, under the Spanish State.
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He is well known for his authorship of a trilogy of works, entitled The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. He is a scholar of the information society, communication and globalization.
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Our societies are increasingly structured around the bipolar opposition of the Net (social network) and the Self
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He is also a fellow of St John's College at the University of Cambridge.
Practices Studied: Social Movement, Article text
By moving away from Marxism, Castells could explore the concepts of gender, urban social movements, and nationality in a more thoughtful way.
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