The Politics of Crowds

ISBN-13: 9781107009738 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 348 str.

Christian Borch

Opis

This book analyses sociological discussions on crowds and masses since the late nineteenth century, covering France, Germany and the USA.

Recenzje

'This is a powerful and interesting interpretation of the history of sociology … In bringing the crowd in from the cold, Borch has done a great service to sociologists, political scientists and social psychologists.' John Scott, Acta Sociologica

Spis treści

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.