The politics of mass society
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The politics of mass society
(International library of sociology, 49 . Political sociology ; 16)
Routledge, 1998, c1960
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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Note
Reprint. First published in 1960 by Routledge and Kegan Paul
Bibliography: p. 239-249
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780415175555
Description
The Politics of Mass Society explores the social conditions necessary for democracy and the vulnerabilities of large scale society to totalitarian systems. Mass movements mobilize people who are alienated from the social system, who do not believe in the legitimacy of the established order, and who are therefore ready to engage in efforts to destroy. Contrary to the psychological approach prevalent in European doctrines of mass movements, Kornhauser persuasively argues that social order is the critical factor. The greatest number of people available to mass movements are located in those segments of society that have the fewest ties to social order.The book draws on a wide range of materials - from classical political theory contemporary sociological analysis, historical and intuitional studies, public opinion surveys, and other published and unpublished data. Kornhauser selected political phenomena in organizations, communities, classes, and whole societies. He examined support for communism and fascism in a variety of countries in relation to rates of urbanization and, industrialization, employment, suicide and homicide, among other phenomena. In his new introduction, Irving Louis Horowitz identifies Kornhauser's book as a seminal work of the great tradition in political sociology at mid-twentieth century.Kornhauser points out that modern democratic systems possess a distinct vulnerability to mass movements. He spells out and identifies factors that tend to increase or decrease this vulnerability - not least the health and strength of elites. In this way, the book reveals new clues to the origins and nature of mass political movements. The Politics of Mass Society remains the most complete analytical account of the sociological approach to mass society in advanced industrial societies.
Table of Contents
- Part I Theory of Mass Society
- Chapter 1 Two Views of Mass Society
- Chapter 2 Conditions of Mass Society
- Chapter 3 Structure of Mass Society
- Chapter 4 Culture and Personality in Mass Society
- Part II Social Sources Of Mass Movements
- Chapter 5 Political Vulnerability of Mass Society
- Chapter 6 Discontinuities in Authority
- Chapter 7 Discontinuities in Community
- Chapter 8 Discontinuities in Society
- Part III Social Composition of Mass Movements
- Chapter 9 Social Classes and Mass Movements
- Chapter 10 Unattached Intellectuals
- Chapter 11 Marginal Middle Classes
- Chapter 12 Isolated Workers
- Part IV Conclusion
- Chapter 13 Mass Society and Democratic Order
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: set ISBN 9780415178204
Description
Originally published between 1943 and 1969, titles in this set were written against a backdrop of rapid and radical political change. This set contains volumes by key political and sociological thinkers, including Bernard Crick. Covering topics as wide-ranging as European Federalism, Democracy and Dictatorship and Voting, these titles are as relevant today as when they were first published.
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