The Behavior of Crowds; A Psychological Study - Couverture souple

Martin, Everett Dean

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1614276161 ISBN 13 : 9781614276166

Editeur : Martino Fine Books, 2014

Synopsis

2014 Reprint of 1920 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The "motivation" of this book is the author's conviction that crowd formation and crowd thinking are daily becoming a more serious menace to civilization. "I know of nothing," he says (p. 6), "which today so menaces not only the values of civilization, but also the achievement of personality and true knowledge of self as the growing habit of behavior as crowds." Gustave Le Bon was the first to study seriously the crowd phenomenon. Le Bon described the emotional nature of the crowd man and suggested the importance of unconscious motivation. Martin followed up on Le Bon's account and improved the ysis by applying the concepts of Freudian psychology to the crowd man. In 1924 Floyd H. Allport contributed another important ysis of the mechanisms of crowd behavior. Both Martin and Allport succeeded in reducing the problem of crowd psychology to the problem of individual behavior under special types of motivation. Although many of the same mechanisms may be found in all crowds, they operate to produce different end results depending upon the motivational basis and the total social situation. Insufficient attention has been given to the various crowd patterns.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Martino Fine Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1614276161
• ISBN 13: 9781614276166
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 322
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible