The Crowd : A Study of the Popular Mind

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le Bon, Gustave.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crowding.

Crowds.

Psychology.

Local Subjects:

Crowding.

Crowds.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Auckland : The Floating Press, 2009.

Summary:

The following work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds. 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. Crowds, doubtless, are always unconscious, but this very unconsciousness is perhaps one of the secrets of their...

Contents:

Title; Contents; Preface; Introduction - The Era of Crowds; BOOK I - THE MIND OF CROWDS; Chapter I - General Characteristics of Crowds- Psychological Law of Their Mental Unity; Chapter II - The Sentiments and Morality of Crowds; Chapter III - The Ideas, Reasoning Power, and Imagination of Crowds; Chapter IV - A Religious Shape Assumed by All the Convictions of Crowds; BOOK II - THE OPINIONS AND BELIEFS OF CROWDS; Chapter I - Remote Factors of the Opinions and Beliefs of Crowds; Chapter II - The Immediate Factors of the Opinions of Crowds

Chapter III - The Leaders of Crowds and Their Means of PersuasionChapter IV - Limitations of the Variability of the Beliefs and Opinions of Crowds; BOOK III - THE CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF CROWDS; Chapter I - The Classification of Crowds; Chapter II - Crowds Termed Criminal Crowds; Chapter III - Criminal Juries; Chapter IV - Electoral Crowds; Chapter V - Parliamentary Assemblies; Endnotes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-77651-028-3

OCLC:

609842322