In recent years, the concept of "mass consciousness" has been widely used in newspaper and magazine journalism, the works of specialists in the field of cultural theory, mass media and propaganda. However, in our literature there was no special work devoted to the analysis of mass consciousness as a special type of social consciousness, its nature, basic characteristics, conditions for the emergence and functioning, its relationship with the processes taking place in society in the spheres of economics, politics, culture, ideology. This problem seeks to solve in his book Doctor of Philosophy, Professor B. A. Grushin.