The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind - Softcover

Lebon, Gustave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420931733 ISBN 13: 9781420931730

Publisher: Digireads.com, 2008

Synopsis

"The following work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds. The whole of the common characteristics with which heredity endows the individuals of a race constitute the genius of the race. When, however, a certain number of these individuals are gathered together in a crowd for purposes of action, observation proves that, from the mere fact of their being assembled, there result certain new psychological characteristics, which are added to the racial characteristics and differ from them at times to a very considerable degree."-From the Preface to "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind", a pivotal work in the field of group psychology which was written in 1895 by French social psychologist, Gustave Le Bon.

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Review

"Insightful for its apprehension of the primitive nature of crowds..."

About the Author

Gustave Le Bon (1841 -1931) was a French social psychologist, sociologist, and amateur physicist. He was the author of several works in which he expounded theories of national traits, racial superiority, herd behavior and crowd psychology. His work on crowd psychology became important during the first half of the twentieth century when it was used by media researchers such as Hadley Cantril and Herbert Blumer to describe the reactions of subordinate groups to media.

Edition details

• Publisher: Digireads.com
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1420931733
• ISBN 13: 9781420931730
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 100