Industrial mass society preserved feudal affiliation patterns while substituting bureaucratic anchors
Evidence
Still, the new industrial society retained many of the hierarchical motifs of the older feudal world in its patterns of affiliation based on class, race, occupation, religion, ethnicity, sex, and the leviathans of mass society: its corporations, workplaces, unions, churches, political parties, civic groups, and school systems. This new world order of the mass and its bureaucratic logic of concentration, centralization, standardization, and administration still provided solid anchors, guidelines, and goals for each life. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 106
Categorization
- XREF: The ‘administrative society’ with its leviathans of mass organization anticipates Weber and Foucault, and sets up the second modernity that surveillance capitalism will exploit. — connects to: Industrial civilization can develop inside a feudal-bureaucratic shell; Patrimonial elites extend control through fictive kinship and patronage networks; Feudalism’s social composition determined capitalism’s form — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 198 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Capitalism extended feudal relations rather than negating them
#corroborates(0.90) - Industrial civilization can develop inside a feudal-bureaucratic shell
#corroborates(0.88) - Japan industrialized within a surviving feudal-bureaucratic shell unlike Western patterns
#exemplifies(0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 319 - Social structures carry history and continuity that independently affect economic systems
#corroborates(0.80) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 29 - Patrimonial elites extend control through fictive kinship and patronage networks
#expands(0.75) - Industrial society reduces individuals to interchangeable species beings through conformist working conditions
#complicates(0.75) - Feudalism’s social composition determined capitalism’s form
#qualifies(0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 198 - Bureaucracy is a stylized model of society’s positional structure
#expands(0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 189 - Bureaucratic planning and cultural rationalization create a totally administered society
#expands(0.72) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 35