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1	The Twilight of American Culture more books like this by Morris Berman add to wishlist In this study, a cultural historian argues that the United States' corporate and consumer culture encourages people to disregard art, literature, and critical thinking. He supports his argument with examples of botched education systems, the typical American's resistance to learn, and the country's obsession with TV shows and fast-food. He ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole more books like this by Benjamin R Barber add to wishlist "Consumed" offers a portrait of how adults are infantilised in a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers. Driven by a frantic imperative to sell, consumer capitalism specialises today in the manufacture not of goods but of needs. This provocative culmination of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture more books like this by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, J M Bernstein add to wishlist The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on ... see all copies from $9.71! new only from $15.79! \| SVS
4	Milestones in Mass Communication Research more books like this by Shearon A Lowery add to wishlist Milestones in Mass Communication Research, 3/e offers an impressive history of mass communication research over the past 60 years and emphasizes media effects. see all copies from $29.99! new only from $116.31! \| SVS
5	The Essential Frankfurt School reader more books like this by Andrew Arato, Eike Gebhardt add to wishlist The Frankfurt School of philosophers, aestheticians, sociologists, and political scientists (including Theodore W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse) represents one of the most interesting and unique intellectual events of the twentieth century. Editors Arato and Gebhardt offer major introductions to the ... see all copies from $19.46! new only from $53.32! \| first editions
6	Consuming Desires, C more books like this by Roger Rosenblatt (Editor), Jane Smiley (Editor), Bharati Mukherjee (Editor) add to wishlist Among the contributors to this volume of essays are fiction writers Jane Smiley and Bharati Mukherjee, social critic Bill McKibben, and film critic Molly Haskell. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions
7	Bread & circuses : theories of mass culture as social decay more books like this by Patrick Brantlinger add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
8	Small Town in Mass Society: Class, Power & Religion in a Rural Community more books like this by Arthur J Vidich, Joseph Bensman add to wishlist "First published in 1958, "Small Town in Mass Society" set community studies on a new course by placing the small town within the framework of large-scale, bureaucratic mass society. Drawing attention to the dynamics of class and ethnicity in relation to economics and politics, this landmark work was among the first to document the consequences of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The politics of mass society. more books like this by William Kornhauser add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.90! new only from $20.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Sokagakkai and Mass Society more books like this by James W White add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.74! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Masses, Classes, and the Public Sphere more books like this by Mike Hill (Editor), Warren Montag (Editor) add to wishlist Despite the passing of some forty years since the original publication of Jurgen Habermas's The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, the fundamental concepts that informed the book remain prominent and distinctly influential. So much so that the term 'public sphere', as Habermas introduced it, has today become an ultimately foundational ... see all copies from $2.75! new only from $2.87! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Enduring South: Subcultural Persistence in Mass Society more books like this by John Shelton Reed add to wishlist First published in 1972, The Enduring South challenges the conventional wisdom that economic development, urbanization, and the end of racial segregation spelled the end of a distinctive Southern culture. In this new edition, John Reed updates the public opinion data to the 1980s and reinforces the book's original conclusions: Southerners are ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.83! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society more books like this by James B Jacobs add to wishlist Stateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago's most infamous criminals and was proclaimed to be "the world's toughest prison" by Joseph Ragen, Stateville's powerful warden from 1936 to 1961. It shares with Attica, San Quentin, and Jackson the notoriety of being one of the maximum security prisons that has shaped the public's ... see all copies from $5.90! new only from $29.02! \| first editions
14 view cover	In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities more books like this by Professor Jean Baudrillard add to wishlist Published one year after Forget Foucault, "In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities" (1978) may be the most important sociopolitical manifesto of the twentieth century: it calls for nothing less than the end of both sociology and politics. Disenfranchised revolutionaries (the Red Brigades, the Baader-Meinhof Gang) hoped to reach the masses directly ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.91! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Small Town in Mass Society more books like this by Arthur J Vidich, Joseph Bensman add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Consumption of Mass more books like this by Nick Lee (Editor), Rolland Munro (Editor), Nicholas Lee (Editor) add to wishlist Ideas of mass dominate twentieth century thought. Mass has been core to its triumphs and complicit in the darkest hours. Alongside a repulsion to mass - genocide, bureaucracy and the crowd - lies an unceasing consumption. The icons of progress, democracy and civilization are all mandated by the globalization of wealth, the rise of popular culture ... see all copies from $2.30! new only from $15.00!
17 view cover	Man against mass society more books like this by Gabriel Marcel add to wishlist see all copies from $8.75! new only from $16.01! \| signed copies
18 view cover	Mass Society and Political Conflict: Toward a Reconstruction of Theory more books like this by Sandor Halebsky add to wishlist The principal purpose of the present volume is to analyse critically one of the major contemporary interpretations of the origin of support for radical or extremist political behaviour - the political theory of mass society. Mass political theory is one of several major perspectives on political extremism which share a stress on the social ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $27.81! \| first editions \| SVS
19	Technological man: the myth and the reality more books like this by Victor C. Ferkiss add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20	Center and Periphery: Essays in Macrosociology more books like this by Edward Albert Shils add to wishlist see all copies from $63.54! SVS
21 view cover	The Representation of the Past: Museums and Heritage in the Post-Modern World more books like this by Kevin Walsh, Walsh Kevin add to wishlist The 1980s and early 1990s have witnessed a marked boom in the museum and heritage industry. Public interest in our historic environment is growing and this new awareness has been met by a major increase in the commercialisation of the past. The Representation of the Past examines this developing trend and reaches some disturbing conclusions. ... see all copies from $30.55! new only from $49.46! \| SVS
22 view cover	Culture Industry more books like this by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno add to wishlist There is no work in the field of cultural studies more emphatic and contested than Adorno's accounts of modern mass culture as an industry. Adorno's conception of the culture industry is one of the cornerstones of his Critical Theory of society and it has recently come back into prominence through its role as one of the central theoretical targets ... see all copies from $32.95! new only from $131.28! \| SVS
23	Cold Fire: Alienation and the Myth of Culture more books like this by Stanley D Rosenberg add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
24	Charisma: A Psychoanalytic Look at Mass Society more books like this by Irvine Schiffer add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25	Aging in Mass Society: Myths and Realities more books like this by Jon Hendricks add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions

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