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The politics of crowds : an alternative history of sociology / Christian Borch.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2013Edition: First paperback editionDescription: vii, 338 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781107625464
- 1107625467
- HM871 .B67 2013
Contents:
Subject: This book analyses sociological discussions on crowds and masses since the late nineteenth century, covering France, Germany and the USA
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: problematising the 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 --
Conclusion: the politics of crowds
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | HM 871 .B67 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5162496 |
Originally published: 2012.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-331) and index.
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: problematising the 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 --
Conclusion: the politics of crowds
This book analyses sociological discussions on crowds and masses since the late nineteenth century, covering France, Germany and the USA
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