The politics of crowds : an alternative history of sociology

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    • Borch, Christian

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The politics of crowds : an alternative history of sociology

Christian Borch

Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Summary: When sociology emerged as a discipline in the late nineteenth century, the problem of crowds constituted one of its key concerns. It was argued that crowds shook the foundations of society and led individuals into all sorts of irrational behaviour. Yet crowds were not just something to be fought in the street, they also formed a battleground over how sociology should be demarcated from related disciplines, most notably psychology. In The Politics of Crowds, Christian Borch traces sociological debates on crowds and masses from the birth of sociology until today, with a particular focus on the developments in France, Germany and the USA. The book is a refreshing alternative history of sociology and modern society, observed through society's other, the crowd. Borch shows that the problem of crowds is not just of historical interest: even today the politics of sociology is intertwined with the politics of crowds

Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-331) and index

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内容説明

When sociology emerged as a discipline in the late nineteenth century, the problem of crowds constituted one of its key concerns. It was argued that crowds shook the foundations of society and led individuals into all sorts of irrational behaviour. Yet crowds were not just something to be fought in the street, they also formed a battleground over how sociology should be demarcated from related disciplines, most notably psychology. In The Politics of Crowds, Christian Borch traces sociological debates on crowds and masses from the birth of sociology until today, with a particular focus on the developments in France, Germany and the USA. The book is a refreshing alternative history of sociology and modern society, observed through society's other, the crowd. Borch shows that the problem of crowds is not just of historical interest: even today the politics of sociology is intertwined with the politics of crowds.

目次

  • Introduction: the crowd problem
  • 1. Setting the stage: crowds and modern French society
  • 2. Disciplinary struggles: the crowd in early French sociology
  • 3. Weimar developments: toward a distinctively sociological theory of crowds
  • 4. Liberal attitudes: crowd semantics in the USA
  • 5. From crowd to mass: problematizing classless society
  • 6. Reactions to totalitarianism: new fusions of sociological and psychological thinking
  • 7. The culmination and dissolution of crowd semantics
  • 8. Postmodern conditions: the rise of the post-political masses
  • Epilogue: the politics of crowds.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB09222294
  • ISBN
    • 9781107009738
  • LCCN
    2011043657
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Cambridge, U.K.
  • ページ数/冊数
    vii, 338 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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