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Michael Bond

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      Fans takes the reader on a journey through a constellation of fandoms, and along the way demonstrates some fundamental truths about the human condition. Part behavioural study, part entertainment, at its heart the book is a story of collectives, of what happens to us when we interact with people who share our passions. The human brain is wired to reach out, and while our groupish tendencies can bring much strife (religious intolerance, racism, war, etc.), they are also the source of some of our greatest satisfactions.Fandoms offer much of the pleasure of tribalism with little of the harm: a feeling of belonging and of shared culture, a sense of meaning and purpose, improved mental well-being, reassurance that our most outlandish convictions will be taken seriously, and the freedom to try to emulate (and dress like) our hero.In Fans, Michael Bond explores the subject through the lens of social identity theory, a set of ideas used by social psychologists and anthropologists to understand how people behave in groups and why groups have such a profound effect on human culture.
      CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Bond EAN: 9781529052473 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 450 g HEIGHT: 241 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan DATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory WIDTH: 162 cm SPINE:

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      Popular culture, Social groups: clubs and societies, Social theory, Social and cultural anthropology, Social, group or collective psychology
      Fans takes the reader on a journey through a constellation of fandoms, and along the way demonstrates some fundamental truths about the human condition. Part behavioural study, part entertainment, at its heart the book is a story of collectives, of what happens to us when we interact with people who share our passions. The human brain is wired to reach out, and while our groupish tendencies can bring much strife (religious intolerance, racism, war, etc.), they are also the source of some of our greatest satisfactions.Fandoms offer much of the pleasure of tribalism with little of the harm: a feeling of belonging and of shared culture, a sense of meaning and purpose, improved mental well-being, reassurance that our most outlandish convictions will be taken seriously, and the freedom to try to emulate (and dress like) our hero.In Fans, Michael Bond explores the subject through the lens of social identity theory, a set of ideas used by social psychologists and anthropologists to understand how people behave in groups and why groups have such a profound effect on human culture.
      CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Bond EAN: 9781529052473 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 450 g HEIGHT: 241 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan DATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory WIDTH: 162 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Popular culture, Social groups: clubs and societies, Social theory, Social and cultural anthropology, Social, group or collective psychology

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      Michael Bond, who won the 2015 British Psychological Society prize for The Power of Others, is a writer specialising in human behaviour and a former editor and reporter at New Scientist. He is currently teaching writing as a Royal Literary Fund fellow at Oxford Brookes University.

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