The Nation and the Promise of Friendship Building Solidarity through Sociability /

• Main Author: Kaplan, Danny (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Cultural Sociology
• Subjects: Culture.; Citizenship-Sociological aspects.; Citizenship.; Political sociology.; Communication.; Ethnography.; Sociology of Culture.; Sociology of Citizenship.; Political Sociology.; Media and Communication.

When strangers meet in social clubs, watch reality television, or interact on Facebook, they contribute to the social glue of mass society-not because they promote civic engagement or democracy, but because they enact the sacred promise of friendship. Where most theories of nationalism focus on issu...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Friendship and Solidarity: The Road Not Taken in Studies of National Attachment
• 2. Social Club Sociability
• 3. Public and Collective Intimacies
• 4. From Strangers to Friends to Brothers: The Meta-Narrative of National Solidarity
• 5. The Big Brotherhood: Freemasons and Civic Sociability
• 6. Songs of the Brotherhood: Radio Music and the Engineering of the National Mood
• 7. The Big Brother: Reality TV Audience turned into Confidants
• 8. The Absent Brother: Military Friendships and National Commemoration
• 9. Conclusion.