MANUEL CASTELLS' THEORY OF THE NETWORK SOCIETY AS AN EXAMPLE OF NON-DETERMINISTIC AND NON-LINEAR CONCEPT OF THE SOCIAL CHANGE

• Authors: Kryszczuk M. D.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Article provides a general framework of Manuel Castells' theory of the Network Society which is successively presented in his three-book series entitled: 'The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture'. The concept of the Network Society refers to general social change which reflects on technological transformation connected with rapid diffusion of ICTs, a process popularly conceived as 'informational revolution'. This explains why we start with the notion of 'informational society' and 'knowledge-based society' terms introduced by such economists like Machlup and Porat, and subsequently popularised by Bell, Ginzberg, Naisbitt, Drucker, Toffler and Masuda. Nowadays we have observed an immense stream of research that is concentrated on social, economic, political and cultural consequences of rapid digitalisation (e.g. Social Informatics). In the field of the Informational Age and its cultural consequences, Manuel Castells stand for the most important theoretician.

Keywords

EN

GLOBALIZATION; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; NETWORK SOCIETY

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
• Journal: Kultura i Społeczeństwo
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 3-35
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kryszczuk M. D.

• M. D. Kryszczuk, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN, ul. Nowy Swiat 72, 00-330 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

05PLAAAA00421026