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can be seen as dominated by a small number of interconnected elites who control the conditions of life of the many, often by means of persuasion and manipulation. This indicates the politics of mass society theorists – they are advocates of various kinds of cultural elite who should be privileged and
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such as television and cinema are doing to the masses. Therefore, the mass media are necessary instruments for achieving and maintaining mass societies. "The mass media give rise to national culture that washes over the traditional differences that used to set off one region from another."
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is a concept that describes modern society as a monolithic force and yet a disaggregate collection of individuals. The term is often used pejoratively to refer to a society in which bureaucracy and impersonal institutions have replaced some notion of
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records. Although such regulations may protect and enhance social equality, they also force individuals to deal increasingly with nameless officials in distant and often unresponsive bureaucracies, and they undermine the
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and large-scale social, political and economic institutions which structure daily life for the majority of people. In modern times the term has taken on more importance and broader scope with the advent of
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referred to the individual caught up in the mass society as "mass man": "to either a greater or lesser degree mass man is convinced that his conformity is both reasonable and just".
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far fewer people express opinions than receive them; for the community of public becomes an abstract collection of individuals who receive impressions from the mass media.
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from institutions; on the contrary, agents of authorized institutions penetrate this mass, reducing any autonomy it may have in the formation of opinion by discussion".
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The communications that prevail are so organized that it is difficult or impossible for the individual to answer back immediately or with any effect.
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Opinion formed by such discussion readily finds an outlet in effective action, even against – if necessary – the prevailing system of authority.
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Public communications are so organized that there is a chance immediately and effectively to answer back any opinion expressed in public.
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The Crowd is Untruth: The Existential Critique of Mass Society in the Thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Ortega y Gassett
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The realization of opinion in action is controlled by authorities who organize and control the channels of such action.
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promoted over the masses, claiming for themselves both exemption from and leadership of the misguided masses.
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theorists developed concepts of mass society in which it replaces aristocracies with the "
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Kornhauser, William. "The Politics of Mass Society", (1959). New York: The Free Press.
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do not penetrate the public, which is thus more or less autonomous in its operations.
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In a sense, all societies are mass societies, but the term typically refers to a
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The references used may be made clearer with a different or consistent style of
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by its critics. The idea of historic processes being driven exclusively by "
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Between Past and Future : Six Exercises in Political Thought
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made a distinction between a society of "masses" and "public".
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virtually as many people express opinions as receive them,
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analyzed mass society and pinpointed its beginning in the
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He states: "In a public, as we may understand the term,
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Mass society theory has been active in a wide range of
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Index

Sociology

History
Outline
Index
Society
Globalization
Human behavior
Human environmental impact
Identity
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Popularity
Social complexity
Social environment
Social equality
Social equity
Social power
Social stratification
Social structure
Social cycle theory
Perspectives
Conflict theory
Critical theory
Structural functionalism
Positivism
Social constructionism
Social darwinism
Symbolic interactionism

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