Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: Archaic and Civilized Forms of the Formation of Masses in the Social Space

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Archaic and Civilized Forms of the Formation of Masses in the Social Space

Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2010 3 (2)
Authors: Nekita, Andrey G.
Contact information: Nekita, Andrey G. : Novgorod State University named after Yaroslav the Wise; 41 Bolshaya Sankt-Petersburgskaia st., Velikyi Novgorod, 173003 Russia, e-mail:
Keywords: power; social institute; mass society; the individual; criminality; management; the state; norm; deviation; social contract; violence; divergence; convergence
Abstract: The article deals with the unconscious principles of existence of power in mass society and ways of their institutionalization in social space under its control. The author analyzes historical types of formalization of the unconscious alienation manifested in the establishment of models of social partnership between an individual and the authority as agents of «social contract» in mass society. Besides, there is an actualization of the problem of correspondence between a particular model of governance and a set of social institutions inculcated by it, which represent the extremes of power in the form of elite, mass, and crime as specific social spaces and their functional bodies.
Pages: 300-308
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/1611