SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Gustave Le Bon, Deindividuation, Course Evaluation
30 Nov 2016
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Research problem: course evaluation response rates are too low at mcmaster university. Small samples make it dif cult to generalize to population (entire class) Create shared goal: achieve 70% response rate) All other intro" courses are our competitors and intro to anther is enemy #1. Nation normally thought of being associated with social order and governance. Involved normal everyday individuals engaging in violence and destruction in big crowds. 3000 people arrested, 5 deaths, million worth of damage. Explaining reckless acts of aggression from normal individuals. Angry mob (individuals join in group, views about personality responsibility disappear, and mob causes individuals to embrace destruction, lose sense of identity) Collective behavior is two or more persons engaged in behavior judged common or concerted on one or more dimensions. Spatial (single location or series of locations) Ex. crowd forming on street or in sports stadiums. Temporal (in the moment? or last longer?) Tahir square, egypt, 2011 (central location, protested for months)
