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Author Borch, Christian.

Title The Politics of Crowds : an Alternative History of Sociology.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (348 pages)
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Contents Cover; The Politics of Crowds: An Alternative History of Sociology; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the crowd problem; The apogee and disappearance of a problem; Writing semantic history; Crowds in history; The argument; 1: Setting the stage: crowds and modern French society; Crowds in an age of revolutions; Le Bon's crowd psychology: inspirations and concerns; An era of crowds; The biopolitical agenda; 2: Disciplinary struggles: the crowd in early French sociology; Tarde's criminological angle; Using crowd semantics as a template for sociological thinking.
From crowds to publics: the political role of sociologyCrowd theory and sociology: the Durkheim effect; Durkheim on crowded effervescence; 3: Weimar developments: towards a distinctively sociological theory of crowds; Adopting and adapting the suggestion doctrine; Mobilizing mass action; First World War: evoking large-scale sentiments; Freud's crowd psychology; Establishing distinctively sociological alternatives; Seeing the crowd as a group; Latent and active crowds; The revolutionary crowd; The transformation of the crowd in Weimar sociology; 4: Liberal attitudes: crowd semantics in the USA.
Urban crowds between communitarian anxiety and radical democratic celebrationCrowds, suggestion and progressive reform: liberal and communitarian concerns; Robert E. Park and the Chicago School; Propaganda and public opinion: nascent problematizations of mass society; Alternatives to suggestion; 5: From crowd to mass: problematizing classles s society; The emergence of 'mass-man'; Mass versus elite: the problem of culture; The politics of mass society; Criticizing mass semantics; 6: Reactions to totalitarianism: new fusions of sociological and psychological thinking.
The mass psychology of fascismThe political psychology of mass aberration; Frankfurt orientations: totalitarianism as an escape from mass isolation; Re-problematizing mass culture; Mass society and the lonely crowd; Questioning mass manipulation: the emergence of the primary group; 7: The culmination and dissolution of crowd semantics; An inside view: Elias Canetti's phenomenology of crowds; Crowd dynamics; Relations to power; Conceptual rebirth: towards a rational agenda; From collective behaviour to social movements: crowd semantics fading in the background.
The dissolution of sociological crowd theory8: Postmodern conditions: the rise of the post-political masses; The masses and the implosion of the social; The politics of contempt; Postmodern tribes: an affirmative view; The emergence of a new revolutionary subject: the multitude; Epilogue: the politics of crowds; The future(s) of sociological crowd theory; References; Index.
Summary This book analyses sociological discussions on crowds and masses since the late nineteenth century, covering France, Germany and the USA.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Crowds.
Crowds.
Crowds -- History.
History.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Borch, Christian. Politics of Crowds : An Alternative History of Sociology. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2012 9781107009738
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