Introduction to Michel Maffesoli's ‘from Society to Tribal Communities’

This article introduces Michel Maffesoli's article 'From Society to Tribal Communities', in which he argues that emerging communities, although post-modern, are not entirely new but archaic and rooted in pre-modernity, and that these tribes are further facilitated by new technological developments such as social media. The introduction summarizes the main argument of the article while contextualizing it within both Maffesoli's wider work and secondary literature that critically engages with his unique approach to studying postmodernism.