SOCI 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Political Opportunity, Herbert Blumer, Neil Smelser

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 3110
• Professor: Timothy Mc Cauley

Document Summary

As a result of trump being elected into presidency, there are so many reactions; riots, social movements, etc. However, it must be noted that le bon often referred to the clich of the irrational crowd, He tended to describe crowds as (irrational and criminal groups) He (cid:272)o(cid:374)side(cid:396)ed hi(cid:373)self the fou(cid:374)de(cid:396) of (cid:862)crowd psychology(cid:863) Criticisms: he did not elucidate the pre(cid:272)ise (cid:373)e(cid:272)ha(cid:374)is(cid:373) (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:272)olle(cid:272)ti(cid:448)ities a(cid:272)(cid:395)ui(cid:396)e (cid:862)g(cid:396)oup (cid:373)i(cid:374)d(cid:863) Social unrest gives unrest to interactions such as milling, collective excitement, (which may give rise to the following ) and social contagion. It"s (cid:272)o(cid:373)p(cid:396)ised of (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t thi(cid:374)gs, like (cid:373)illi(cid:374)g, collective excitement and social contagion all combined. 2: this super ego, which is your conscious, is affected. Mcdougall argued similarly to freud, saying that simplistic emotions are widespread, and complex emotions are rare. Super ego is your conscious, the ego is yourself and the id is your instinct which can be over-thrown in the crowd.