SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Arab Spring, Rodney King, Arson
19 Apr 2016
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Le bon: individual identity and self control disappear, giving was to primitive and barbaric lighters at a concert or dance move at a festival. In dense crowds, imitation of behaviours spreads quickly, creating a unanimous mass. Collective behaviour: two or more persons engaged in behaviour judges common or concerted on one or more dimensions. Crowds: temporary gatherings of people in physical proximity, usually engaging in a joint activity. Deindividuation - crowds create anonymity and reduce perceptions of personal responsibility state. Contagion: tendency for people to imitate other people ex. ***theories are not developed in a historical vacuum** Le bon developed his model of crowds in response to a) b: growing fear of the working class. Le bon"s work in uenced future dictators such as hitler (yuck) 1: emotionality, suggestibility, destructiveness, spontaneity, anonymity, unanimity. Crowd action is often patterned in ways that re ect existing norms and cultures rapid industrialization and urbanization french revolution.
