Translation of : Center and Periphery : Essays in Macrosociology.

Center and periphery -- Society : the idea and its sources -- Society and societies : the macrosociological view -- The integration of society -- The theory of mass society -- Primordial, personal, sacred, and civil ties -- Charisma -- The meaning of the coronation / by Edward Shils and Michael Young -- Ritual and crisis -- Consensus -- Tradition -- The sanctity of life -- Power and status / by Herbert Goldhamer and Edward Shils -- Class -- Charisma, order, and status -- Deference -- The stratification system of mass society -- Privacy and power -- Cohesion and disintegration in the Wehrmacht in World War II / by Edward Shils and Morris Janowitz -- Primary groups in the American Army -- The concentration and dispersion of charisma : their bearing on economic policy in underdeveloped countries -- Opposition in the new states of Asia and Africa -- The fortunes of constitutional government in the political development of the new states -- The military in the political development of the new states. Notes Includes bibliographical references.