By way of introduction -- The emotional community : research arguments -- The underground puissance -- Sociality vs. the social -- Tribalism -- Polyculturalism -- Of proxemics -- Appendix : the thinking of the public square
Summary
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
