![]() ![]() ![]() Our ideas about society have long affected, and been affected by, our understanding of the universe: large sections of our economy and society are now organized around humanity’s use of outer space. But what are the political implications of society not only being globalized, but becoming ‘cosmic’? Space weaponry, satellite surveillance and communications, and private space travel are all means in which outer space is being humanized: incorporated into society’s projects. Göran Therborn is University Professor of Sociology at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, UK.Īrguably the most important and certainly the most ambitious book of recent sociology.īryan Turner, Editor of the Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology. An original vision and a pedagogical text on a major issue of our time and, even more, of our childen´s. ![]()
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