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The Politics of Mass Society (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Mass Society (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Mass Society explores the social conditions
necessary for democracy and the vulnerabilities of large scale
society to totalitarian systems. Mass movements mobilize people who
are alienated from the social system, who do not believe in the
legitimacy of the established order, and who are therefore ready to
engage in efforts to destroy. Contrary to the psychological
approach prevalent in European doctrines of mass movements,
Kornhauser persuasively argues that social order is the critical
factor. The greatest number of people available to mass movements
are located in those segments of society that have the fewest ties
to social order. The book draws on a wide range of materials--from
classical political theory contemporary sociological analysis,
historical and intuitional studies, public opinion surveys, and
other published and unpublished data. Kornhauser selected political
phenomena in organizations, communities, classes, and whole
societies. He examined support for communism and fascism in a
variety of countries in relation to rates of urbanization and
industrialization, employment, and suicide and homicide among other
phenomena. In his new introduction, Irving Louis Horowitz
identifies Kornhauser's book as a seminal work of the great
tradition in political sociology in the mid-twentieth century.
Kornhauser points out that modern democratic systems possess a
distinct vulnerability to mass movements. He spells out and
identifies factors that tend to increase or decrease this
vulnerability--not least the health and strength of elites. In this
way, the book reveals new clues to the origins and nature of mass
political movements. The Politics of Mass Society remains the most
complete analytical account of the sociological approach to mass
society in advanced industrial societies.
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