The Crowd

Question 1

Gustav le bon - the era of the crowds

Answer 1

masses, no longer courts of princes

Question 2

Gustav le bon - definition

Answer 2

organism of sentiments and ideas of all the persons in the gathering take one - collective mind

Question 3

Gustav le bon - sentiment of invincible power

Answer 3

absence responsibility, field to instincts

Question 4

Gustav le bon - contagion

Answer 4

imitation, heightened emotion, physically touching others, reinforce contagion

Question 5

Gustav le bon - suggestability

Answer 5

passing opinion, brain paralysed case hypnotised subject, irrational, primitive

Question 6

Critiques Le Bon

Answer 6

ambiguity, variations - deviation and violence, not irrational

Question 7

George Rude crowd in French Revolution

Answer 7

Bastille fortress, 2 members lowered bridge, crowd released prisoners

crowd not irrational, follows primary concern
motivation - hunger, property, threat to life

Question 8

Natalie Zeman Davis

Answer 8

timing - religious festivals
purpose - symbolic function

Question 9

Interactional models

Answer 9

historical background, social identity

levels of actualisation

interactional level, police violence, crowd own violence as a result

Question 10

aspects of a protest

Answer 10

faces = humans sensitive

standoff = within 90 mins

pathway = police initiates

Question 11

clusters and small groups

Answer 11

vulnerable or engage in violence

Question 12

dispersed phase

Answer 12

violence likely, isolated

Question 13

factors that affect protests

Answer 13

social/political context

size/density

internal dynamics

external dynamics

Question 14

Zemon Davis on crowds

Answer 14

concept of rights

riots as assertion of power, commitment and solidarity

women involvement

Question 15

Anne Nassauer on crowds

Answer 15

violence emerges when pushed over inhibition threshold

temporal danger zone - 1 to 3 hours, release onto violence

Question 16

Randall Collins on crowds

Answer 16

interactional ritual chains - emotional energy deescalate

cyclical nature of violence

large conflicts, time dynamics longer

Question 17

types of violence

Answer 17

direct, structured, cultural