Manuel Castells (Spanish name: Manuel Castells Oliván; born in Hellín, Albacete, Spain, in 1942) is a sociologist especially associated with information society and communications research. The 2000–06 research survey of the Social Sciences Citation Index, ranks him as the world’s fifth most-cited social sciences scholar, and the foremost-cited communications scholar. He is a member of the International Ethical, Scientific and Political Collegium...
more
Manuel Castells (Spanish name: Manuel Castells Oliván; born in Hellín, Albacete, Spain, in 1942) is a sociologist especially associated with information society and communications research. The 2000–06 research survey of the Social Sciences Citation Index, ranks him as the world’s fifth most-cited social sciences scholar, and the foremost-cited communications scholar. He is a member of the International Ethical, Scientific and Political Collegium, a leadership and expertise organisation for developing means of overcoming the problems to establishing a peaceful, socially-just, and economically-sustainable world.
Manuel Castells was raised primarily in Barcelona; although of conservative family, he was politically active in the student anti-Franco movement, an adolescent political activism that forced him to flee Spain for France. In Paris, at the age of twenty, he completed his degree studies, then progressed to the University of Paris, where he earned a doctorate in sociology. At the...
less
