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020			_a9780511842160 (ebook)
020			_z9781107009738 (hardback)
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050	0	0	_aHM871 _b.B67 2012
082	0	0	_a302.33 _223
100	1		_aBorch, Christian, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe politics of crowds : _ban alternative history of sociology / _cChristian Borch.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
300			_a1 online resource (vii, 338 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: Introduction: the crowd problem; 1. Setting the stage: crowds and modern French society; 2. Disciplinary struggles: the crowd in early French sociology; 3. Weimar developments: toward a distinctively sociological theory of crowds; 4. Liberal attitudes: crowd semantics in the USA; 5. From crowd to mass: problematising the classless society; 6. Reactions to totalitarianism: new fusions of sociological and psychological thinking; 7. The culmination and dissolution of crowd semantics; 8. Postmodern conditions: the rise of the post-political masses; Conclusion: the politics of crowds.
520			_aWhen sociology emerged as a discipline in the late nineteenth century, the problem of crowds constituted one of its key concerns. It was argued that crowds shook the foundations of society and led individuals into all sorts of irrational behaviour. Yet crowds were not just something to be fought in the street, they also formed a battleground over how sociology should be demarcated from related disciplines, most notably psychology. In The Politics of Crowds, Christian Borch traces sociological debates on crowds and masses from the birth of sociology until today, with a particular focus on the developments in France, Germany and the USA. The book is a refreshing alternative history of sociology and modern society, observed through society's other, the crowd. Borch shows that the problem of crowds is not just of historical interest: even today the politics of sociology is intertwined with the politics of crowds.
650		0	_aCrowds.
650		0	_aCrowds _xHistory.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107009738
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511842160
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