Manuel Castells

During the 1900’s in Argentina, the idea of patriarchy authority clearly triumphed over any of the romantic ideas that are not supported or based upon family, bureaucracy or religious instituted. This idea is undeniably backed by the movie Camila directed by María Luisa Bemberg in 1984 and several other sources in “The Argentina Reader” edited by Gabriela Nouzeilles and Graciela Montaldo and “A Brief History of Argentina” written by Jonathan C. Brown. The suffering from the continuity of authoritarianism

According to Manuel Castells, “The Impact of the Internet on Society” the Internet and its many uses have been misunderstood. The Internet has helped to improve social relationships but “The media aggravate the distorted perception by dwelling into scary reports on the basis of anecdotal observation and biased commentary” (page 10). With such thought being expressed, it seems we are falling for the falsely defined characteristics of the internet. We can either let the unreliable reviews take our

Social movements have become an important aspect of life to attempt to improve the world around us, and to project highly supported ideas such as things like animal rights, gay rights, climate change, black lives matter, and working class movements such as the equal pay movement. Social movements such as these are the key actors within our societies that challenge the higher powers to create or to start to create a change worldwide. One paradigm that has arisen within the realm of sociology is the

Manuel Castells notion of ‘ethnic unbonding’ refers to: the gradual withdrawal certain African-Americans are undergoing, so that they no longer are a member of their initial ethnic group. ‘Ethnic unbonding’ is a process where individuals remove themselves from their ethnic groups, because they are either ashamed or humiliated to be associated as part of a stigmatized ethnic identity. “So, race matters a lot. But, at the same time, the class divide among blacks has created such fundamentally different

Social Movements in the Internet Age, Manuel Castells, a Spanish professor of sociology and communication, focuses on current social movements and protests in the world recently. Examples of such movements are the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and Spain. These revolutions demonstrate the role of social networks and the Internet which broadcast the details of these social movements. Each movement has social, cultural, and political aspects, which are what Castells examines in his book. The Internet

area is undoubtedly Manuel Castells. He believes on network society which goes further than information society which he argues that it is not purely the technology that defines modern societies, but also cultural, economic and political factors that make up the network society (Network Society, 2012). Moreover Castles defines network society as a society whose social structure is made of networks powered by microelectronics-based information and communication technologies (Castells, 2004, p. 3). What

On the one hand, since Marxist writers, E. Hobsbawm, H. Lefebvre, M. Castells etc., legitimate Paris Commune 1871 the first left-wing, violent urban conflict event led a “progressive” bottom-up proletarian led an utopias modern city to be born. On the other, during the occasions in Paris Commune 1871, a French photographer Eugene Appert has remained to us 9 documentary frames of the dramatic studio shots. The scenario set the anti-Commune French gunman allied aimed at an acting figure of the Communade

focus of this paper is to analyze this social issue by viewing it using theories derived from Karl Marx and his idea of class struggle and capitalism. I will also interpret theories from Immanuel Wallerstein and his idea of a world system and Manuel Castells with respect to globalization. Human trafficking and

Summary Pierre Bourdieu is a French Theorist. Bourdieu’s theory is to emphasize constructivist structuralism and he was influenced by Karl Marx by cultural capital. Bourdieu presents the question of class. Bourdieu claimed that capital forms the foundation of social life. Bourdieu thinks the more capital a person have, the more powerful they will be, and Marx had the same view as well. Bourdieu went on to claim that it had something to do with the symbolic realm of culture. When Bourdieu brings culture

by Maneul Castells. My essay consists of three main parts: the first one is theory’s key points summary, the second is critical evaluation of merits and limitations, and the last one is a specific application from Asia context. According to Castells, our society transformed from the Industrial Age into the Information Age. The term “network society” refers to the social structure which is formed and dominated by microelectronic-based information and communication technologies (Castells 2004). He