Question

Briefly describe mass society and explain how it affected the economy and leisure activities.

Answer 1

Mass society refers to any modern era society that retains a mass culture and large-scale and impersonal social institutions. It is a society in which bureaucracy and prosperity have led to the weakened conventional social ties.  In such a society, most of the institutions are organized with the individuals in the aggregate and the similarities in the attitudes and behavior of the people is viewed as being more important than the differences. The life of the people living in such communities is governed by the mass relations. This means that the mass society tends to focus on the economy more and is less likely to focus on leisure activities for economic success purposes.