The Crowd, A Study of the Popular Mind - Softcover

Bon, Gustave Le

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9899880760 ISBN 13: 9789899880764

Publisher: IAEGCA - Portuguese Institute of Higher Studies in Geopolitics and Auxiliary Sciences, 2014

Synopsis

This book has been professionally retyped and reformatted to fit modern day standards by officials of the Portuguese Institute of Higher Studies in Geopolitics and Auxiliary Sciences. * Organised crowds have always played an important part in the life of peoples, but this part has never been of such moment as at present. The substitution of the unconscious action of crowds for the conscious activity of individuals is one of the principal characteristics of the present age.I have endeavoured to examine the difficult problem presented by crowds in a purely scientific manner—that is, by making an effort to proceed with method, and without being influenced by opinions, theories, and doctrines. This, I believe, is the only mode of arriving at the discovery of some few particles of truth, especially when dealing, as is the case here, with a question that is the subject of impassioned controversy. A man of science bent on verifying a phenomenon is not called upon to concern himself with the interests his verifications may hurt. - 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: IAEGCA - Portuguese Institute of Higher Studies in Geopolitics and Auxiliary Sciences
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9899880760
• ISBN 13: 9789899880764
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 178