Inequality and Mobilization in The Information Age

This article focuses on Manuel Castells's claim that the information age announces major changes in stratification and, accordingly, in social and political mobilization. His assertion that informational labour displaces generic labour in informational capitalism is examined in terms of its conceptual and historical accuracy, and questions are raised about the notion of meritocracy embedded in his depiction of informational labour. The idea that the network society is characterized by 'a faceless collective capitalist' is also called into question by evidence of the persistence of a propertied class. Finally, Castells's analysis of the emergence and significance of identitybased mobilizations is examined

Assertion · Capitalism · Depiction · Epistemology · Inequality · Meritocracy · Mobilization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Gender Studies · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Political theory and Gramsci

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