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mass society
noun
, Sociology.
- a society whose members are characterized by having segmentalized, impersonal relations, a high degree of physical and social mobility, a spectator relation to events, and a pronounced tendency to conform to external popular norms.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mass society1
First recorded in 1945–50
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Example Sentences
And within this strangely mingled mass society and government rested on a purely democratic basis.
From Project Gutenberg
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