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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455232803321

Autore

Maffesoli Michel

Titolo

The time of the tribes [[electronic resource] ] : the decline of individualism in mass society / / Michel Maffesoli ; translated by Don Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 1996

ISBN

0-8039-8473-1

1-283-87939-5

1-84860-953-1

0-585-34010-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Collana

Theory, culture & society

Disciplina

302.5

Soggetti

Group identity

Individualism

Social change

Mass society

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.