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The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society

By Michel Maffesoli

Book information

Publisher
Sage Publications
Year
1996
ISBN
0803984731, 9780803984738
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12818299 bytes)
Series
Theory, Culture & Society
Edition
1st
Pages
192\191
Time added
2015-01-28 17:39:24

Description

In this exciting book 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. The book provides a rich backcloth against which to consider the rise of `identity politics' and the `proliferation of lifestyle cultures'.

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