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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778849903321

Autore

Maffesoli Michel

Titolo

The time of the tribes : 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 (xii, 176 pages)

Collana

Theory, culture & society

Disciplina

302.5

Soggetti

Group identity

Individualism

Social change

Mass society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

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.