| Description |
1 online resource (191 pages) |
| Series |
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society |
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Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Foreword: Masses or Tribes?; By Way of Introduction; Chapter 1 -- The Emotional Community: Research Arguments; Chapter 2 -- The Underground Puissance; Chapter 3 -- Sociality vs. The Social ; Chapter 4 -- Tribalism; Chapter 5 -- Polyculturalism; Chapter 6 -- Of Proxemics; Appendix: The Thinking of the Public Square; Index |
| Summary |
In this exciting book Michel Maffesoli argues that the conventional approaches to understanding solidarity and society are deeply flawed. He contends that mass culture has disintegrated and that today social existence is conducted through fragmented tribal groupings, organized around the catchwords, brand-names and sound-bites of consumer culture. The book provides a rich backcloth against which to consider the rise of 'identity politics' and the 'proliferation of lifestyle cultures' |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Group identity
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Individualism
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Mass society
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Social change
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Group identity.
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Individualism.
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Mass society.
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Social change.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1848609531 |
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9781848609532 |
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