SOCPSY 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Gustave Le Bon, Herbert Blumer, Collective Behavior
26 Mar 2019
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From individual behaviour to the behaviour of people in groups. Can make the most introverted person the most outgoing when you are in a group. Collective behaviour: the action of behaviour of people in groups or crowds, usually as a reaction to an event or to express a common sentiment . Ex. cheering on a team, getting excited at a concert. Early sociology said that crowds are irrational entities. Crowds of people tend to be taken over by groupthink. The mind of the overall group overrides the minds of the individual people within it. Crowds are not much different than any other social system. Studied and compared data from hundreds of events. By 1980s other sociologists used the term collective action". When people come together they aren"t just mindless. Good people can do bad things under certain social situations. Ex. nazi germany - people caught up in emotions of the time. Interested in finding out what happened during that time.
