Manuel Castells

Manuel Castells ( born February 9, 1942 in Hellin, Albacete Province, Spain ) is a Spanish sociologist.

In the 1970s, Castells played a central role in the development of Marxist urban sociology. Castells far, probably the most important contribution to the sociology and media theory is the three-volume study of world society as a Network Society - The Information Age. Economy, Society, and Culture - which was created between 1996 and 1998 and in connection with the Internet boom since found wide appeal in California. The main thesis of this work is aimed at ensuring that a new paradigm, the network has grown to become a societal phenomenon, and not, as previously only changed parts of society. The work was published from 2001 in German.

Life

Castells was born in Hellin, lived as a child but also in Albacete, Madrid, Cartagena, Valencia and Barcelona. He studied from 1958 to 1962 Law and Economics at the University of Barcelona. He was very active against Franco's dictatorship and was forced to flee to Paris, where he was recognized as a political refugee and completed his studies at the Sorbonne in 1964. In 1967 he received his doctorate from the University of Paris in sociology with a statistical analysis of the location policy of commercial enterprises in the area of Paris. Castells also received a Doctorat d'Etat humanities from the Sorbonne and a PhD in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid.

1968 Castells was expelled due to his active involvement in student protests in 1968 from France and went into exile in Chile and Canada, where he pursued teaching assignments. A little later he was pardoned and was able to return to Paris in 1970 as a result.

Castells taught 1967-1979 at the University of Paris sociology, first at the Nanterre campus, then from 1970 at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. In this he also worked with Henri Lefebvre. In 1979 he was appointed professor at the Department of City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and from 1994 to 1998, he headed the Berkeley 's Center for Western European Studies.

At the start of his scientific work, Castells was influenced by the structuralism of Louis Althusser.

Castells was also professor and director of the Institute for the Sociology of new technologies at the Autonomous University of Madrid and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones professor at Cientificas in Barcelona, as well as 15 other European, U.S. and Latin American, Canadian and Asian universities. In 2003 he went to the University of Southern California and the Annenberg School for Communication as the first holder of the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication. He lectured at over 300 academic economic institutions in some 40 countries.

Manuel Castells is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Urban and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley (USA). He is currently working at the Open University of Catalonia and the University of California in San Diego.

Urban Sociology

In the 1970s, Castells played a central role in the development of Marxist urban sociology.

Awards

Writings (selection )

  • 2012: Networks of Outrage and Hope. Social Movements in the Internet Age. Polity Press, Cambridge, MA, ISBN 978-0-7456-6284-8
  • 2009: Communication power. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York, ISBN 0-19-956704-2.
  • 2006: Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective. MIT Press ( co-author )
  • 2005: The Internet Galaxy. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-8100-3593-9, Google Books
  • 2001: The Information Age. 3 volumes (short review PDF): Volume 1: The Rise of the Network Society. Leske Budrich Verlag, Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-8100-3223-9.
  • Volume 2: The Power of Identity. Leske Budrich Verlag, Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-8100-3224-7.
  • Volume 3: The Millennium. Campus Verlag, Opladen 2003, ISBN 3-8100-3225-5.
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