Society based on relations between huge numbers of people, whose prototypical denizen is the "mass man"

The cold fire : alienation and the myth of culture / by Stanley D. Rosenberg and Bernard J. Bergen.

Bread & circuses : theories of mass culture as social decay / by Patrick Brantlinger.

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Mass society

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The cold fire : alienation and the myth of culture / by Stanley D. Rosenberg and Bernard J. Bergen.

Bread & circuses : theories of mass culture as social decay / by Patrick Brantlinger.