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Manuel Castells (full Spanish name: Manuel Castells Oliván[1]; born 1942 in Hellín, Albacete, Spain) is a sociologist associated particularly with research into the information society and communications. In most Spanish -speaking countries people have two surnames. Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Hellín is a Town and Municipality located in the south of the province of Albacete, in Castile-La Mancha, Spain. Albacete is a province of central Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Sociology (from Latin: socius "companion" and the suffix -ology "the study of" from Greek λόγος lógos "knowledge" An information society is a Society in which the creation distribution diffusion use integration and manipulation of Information is a significant economic Communication is the process of conveying information from a sender to a receiver with the use of a medium in which the communicated information is understood the same way According to the Social Sciences Citation Index's survey of research from 2000 to 2006, Castells was ranked as the fifth most cited social sciences scholar and the foremost cited communications scholar in the world. The social sciences comprise academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including Anthropology, Communication studies 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. [2][3]

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Life

Raised primarily in Barcelona as part of a conservative family, Castells became politically active in the student anti-Franco movement as a teenager. Barcelona ( Catalan bəɾsəˈlonə Spanish baɾθeˈlona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde (born December 4, 1892 in Ferrol, died November 20, 1975 in Madrid His political activism necessitated fleeing the country: he finished his degree at the age of twenty in Paris. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city After completing a doctorate in Sociology at the University of Paris, he taught at the university between 1967 and 1979, first at the Nanterre Campus, from which he was expelled after the 1968 student protest, and then, from 1970 to 1979, at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. The historic University of Paris (Université de Paris first appeared in the second half of the 13th century Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) The Paris X University Nanterre is a French university in the Academy of Versailles. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) The École des hautes études en sciences sociales ( French for " School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences " EHESS) is a French In 1979, he was appointed Professor of Sociology and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley In 2001, he also became a research professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC is the Catalan name of the Open University of Catalonia. In 2003, he left UC Berkeley to join the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School for Communication as a professor of communication and the first Wallis Annenberg endowed Chair of Communication and Technology. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly He is a founding member of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and a senior member of the Center's Faculty Advisory Council. The University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy is a joint academic research teaching and training center created Castells is also a member of the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication. He received numerous honorary doctorates and other honours in recognition of his work.

Castells lives in Barcelona and Santa Monica, California, and is married to Emma Kiselyova.

Theory

During the 1970s, Castells played a key role in the development of a Marxist urban sociology. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. Marxism is the political philosophy and practice derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Urban sociology is the sociological study of social life and human interaction in Metropolitan areas It is a normative discipline of sociology seeking to study the He emphasised the role of social movements in the conflictive transformation of the urban landscape. Social movements are a type of group action. They are large informal groupings of Individuals and/or Organizations focused on specific He introduced the concept of "collective consumption" (public transport, public housing, et cetera) to frame a wide range of social struggles, displaced from the economic to the political field by state intervention. Abandoning the strictures of Marxism in the early 1980s, he began to focus on the role of new technologies in economic restructuring. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. In 1989, he introduced the concept of the "space of flows", by which he meant the material and immaterial components of the global information networks through which more and more of the economy was coordinated, in real time across distances. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) The Space of flows is a high level cultural conceptual abstraction of space time and their dynamic interaction with society in the digital age In the 1990s, he combined both strands of his research into a massive study, Information Age, published as a trilogy between 1996 and 1998. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 Information Age is a term that has been used to refer to the present era Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) In response to the critical reception of that work at a number of large seminars held at universities across the world, a second edition was published in 2000. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.

Castells analysis unfolds along three basic dimensions — production, power and experience. Power is a measure of a person's ability to control the environment around them including the behavior of other people Experience as a general concept comprises Knowledge of or skill in or Observation of some thing or some event gained through involvement in or This stresses that the organisation of the economy, of the state and its institutions, and the ways that people create meaning in their lives through collective action, are irreducible sources of social dynamics. Economics is the social science that studies the production distribution, and consumption of goods and services. A state is a political association with effective Sovereignty over a geographic Area and representing a Population. Social dynamics is the study of the ability of a Society to react to inner and outer changes and deal with its regulation mechanisms They need to be understood in their own terms as well as in relation to one another. Applying such an analysis to the development of the Internet, Castells stresses the roles of the state (military and academia), social movements (hackers and social activists) and businesses in shaping the infrastructure according to their (conflicting) agendas. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks

In the trilogy, he condenses this view to the statement "our societies are increasingly structured around the bipolar opposition of the Net and the Self" (1996, p. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) 3). The Net means the new, networked forms of organisation which are replacing vertically integrated hierarchies as the dominant form of social organization. The Self, on the other hand, relates to the multiple practices through which people try to reaffirm identity and meaning in a landscape of rapid change. In Sociology, the self refers to an individual person from the perspective of that person Identity is an Umbrella term used throughout the Social sciences to describe an individual's comprehension of him or herself as a discrete separate entity Castells also coined the term 4th World. The term Fourth World in academia sometimes refers to a sub-population subjected to social exclusion in global society but since the 1974 publication of The Fourth World An Indian

Publications

Manuel Castells is one of the world's most highly cited social science and communication scholars[4][5] and has written more than 20 books including:

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