Mass Society

On The Way to the Mass Society
In C. Wright Mills¡¦s article, ¡§The Mass Society¡¨, he says our society that will eventually become a mass society, which Mills states that the society today is still public, but the ¡§transformation of public into mass is particular concern to us, for it provides an important clue to the meaning of the power elite¡¨ (23). According to Mills¡¦s article that public only exists in a small part of our society where ¡§public communications are so organized that there is a chance immediately and effectively to answer back any opinion expressed in public¡¨ and yet when it becomes into mass, the public opinion will just function like a one-way road (24).
Besides Mills¡¦s statement about how the mass society has created the difficulties for the communication in the society, media that affects our daily life has also helped to push the society into mass, which Mills state that ¡§these media have helped less to enlarge and animate the di...