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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829925403321

Autore

Agger Ben

Titolo

The virtual self : a contemporary sociology / / Ben Agger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Publishers, , [2004]

©2004

ISBN

1-281-31032-8

9786611310325

0-470-70173-0

0-470-77337-5

0-470-77517-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Collana

21st-century sociology

Disciplina

303.4833

Soggetti

Information society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-186) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1 Everyday Life in Our Wired World; 2 Sociology's Encyclopedia; 3 Does Postmodernism Make You Mad or Did You Flunk Statistics? A Chapter on Methodology; 4 Adventures in Capitalism; 5 Girl Talk; 6 Virtually, a Sociology!; Glossary; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Virtual Self is an engaging and exciting text that addresses issues relating to our rapidly changing society, social structure, and communication needs. In doing so, it addresses major issues in sociology that inform virtually all of a student's course work.Introduces students to concepts of the self and society in an age of rapid technology and high speed communicationExamines the relationship between everyday life and social structure in key domains of communication, personality, work/family, leisure and entertainment, and economicsWritten in a live