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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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Origin of mass society
First recorded in 1945–50
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How to use mass society in a sentence
And within this strangely mingled mass society and government rested on a purely democratic basis.
History of the English People, Volume I (of 8)|John Richard Green