The time of the tribes : the decline of individualism in mass society /
By: Maffesoli, Michel.
Series: Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered): Publisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 1996Description: xii, 176 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0803984731; 9780803984738:; 080398474X (pbk.).Uniform titles: Temps des tribus. English Subject(s): Group identity | Individualism | Social change | Mass societyDDC classification: 302.5Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 302.5 MAF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0045888 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
By way of introduction -- The emotional community : research arguments -- The underground puissance -- Sociality vs. the social -- Tribalism -- Polyculturalism -- Of proxemics -- Appendix : the thinking of the public square.
This study seeks to recast the social dynamic of postmodernity. It argues, in contrast to much contemporary thought defining this dynamic as the contraction of the social into the individual, that it is in fact a retreat into tribalism.