SOC 2109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Suggestibility, Gustave Le Bon, 1984 New York City Subway Shooting
Document Summary
Behaviour: simultaneous behaviour that emerge in large groups of people that may be spontaneous and often outside the norms of society. Collective and conventional behaviour may occur in the same setting. Forms and examples: of collective behavior: riots: a localized group of people that explodes into violent action, relatively short lived and spontaneous, underlying problem that is triggered by specific event. Watts/ south central la- 1967 (2 white officers stopped an african american pregnant women and assaulted her, it was enough to start a riot) (racial tensions set the stage for this to occur) Christie pitts; mtl rocket riots (downtown toronto where jewish people live, anti semitic riot)/(rocket richard was suspended from a game: panics: large localized group that reacts fearful in response to some perceived threat. Night club fire in r. i. / brazil: mass hysteria: wide spread (not localized) panic and fear often accompanied by irrational behaviour. Orsen wells war of the worlds - 1938.
