Consuming PlacesRoutledge, 2002 M03 11 - 272 páginas John Urry has been discussing and writing on these and similar questions for the past fifteen years. In Consuming Places, he gathers together his most significant contributions. Urry begins with an extensive review of the connections between society, time and space. The concept of 'society', the nature of 'locality', the significance of 'economic restructuring', and the concept of the 'rural', are examined in relationship to place. The book then considers how places have been transformed by the development of service occupations and industries. Concepts of the service class and post-industrialism are theoretically and empirically discussed. Attention is then devoted to the ways in which places are consumed. Particular attention is devoted to the visual character of such consumption and its implications for place and people. The implications for nature and the environment are also explored in depth. The changing nature of consumption, and the tensions between commodification and collective enthusiasms, are explored in the context of the changing ways in which the countryside is consumed. |
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... rural' in relationship to place. The book then considers how places have been transformed by the development of ... sociology, geography, leisure studies, urban and regional studies and cultural studies. John Urry is Professor of Sociology ...
... SOCIOLOGY AS A PARASITE: SOME VICES AND VIRTUES 33 3 THE NEW MARXISM OF COLLECTIVE ACTION: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS 46 4 SOCIETY, SPACE AND LOCALITY 63 Part II Restructuring and services 5 RESTRUCTURING THE RURAL 77 6 CAPITALIST PRODUCTION ...
... rural sociology there was limited recognition of the processes of internal differentiation across space. What was therefore investigated by much twentieth century sociology was a system of independent societies whose social structures ...
... sociology'. This was established in the inter-war period at the University ... rural areas: size, which produces segregation, indifference and social ... sociology and Redfield's for research in rural sociology. Much effort was spent on ...
... rural areas. Furthermore, rural life is not simply organised around farm-based communities, where people frequently ... sociology took over such deceptively easy contrasts in its endeavour to construct a spatially determined analysis of the ...
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SOME VICES AND VIRTUES | 33 |
SOCIETY SPACE AND LOCALITY | 63 |
RESTRUCTURING THE RURAL | 77 |
CAPITALIST PRODUCTION SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT | 90 |
IS BRITAIN THE FIRSTPOSTINDUSTRIAL SOCIETY? | 112 |
THE CONSUMPTION OF TOURISM | 129 |
TOURISM TRAVEL AND THE MODERN SUBJECT | 141 |
REINTERPRETING LOCAL CULTURE | 152 |
TOURISM EUROPE AND IDENTITY | 163 |
THE TOURIST GAZE AND THE ENVIRONMENT | 173 |
THE MAKING OF THE LAKE DISTRICT | 193 |
SOCIAL IDENTITY LEISURE AND THE COUNTRYSIDE | 211 |