Categories: Sociology

Crowd behavior

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Crowd is the temporary gathering of a number of people in one place for a single goal&period; The members of crowd rarely know each other&period; Most forms of crowd behavior are unstructured in which members do not follow traditions&comma; rules and regulations&period; Crowd behavior sometimes becomes rude&comma; impulsive and violent&period; The people do not gather collectively in a place through a pre-planned pattern because crowed behavior appears spontaneously&period; If we have a glance over our surroundings&comma; we may find lot of crowd behavior&period; People use to surround the spots where an unusual happens&period; For example&comma; a nasty road accident forms a crowd&comma; the act of shopping of a national hero forms a crowd and the big screen with a football match forms a crowd in a roadside etc&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&NewLine;<h3>Theories about crowd behavior<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p> &&num;160&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&NewLine;There are two types of theories about crowd behavior i-e convergence theory and emergent norm theory&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&&num;160&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Convergence Theory<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p> &&num;160&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">In the convergence theory&comma; it is mentioned that the crowd behavior arises from the collection of people for uniform goals&period; The people of crowd share the same likes&comma; needs&comma; impulses and purposes etc&period; The people attending a crowd share number of common characteristics which may differ from the other crowd&period; For example the crowd of rock festivals is different from the crowd which is protesting against the government&period; These two forms of crowd may differ from each other in the shape of aggression&comma; anger and emotions etc&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<h3>Emergent Norm Theory <&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p> &&num;160&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">According to the emergent theory&comma; crowd takes action on the basis of some norms of the crowd&period; The members of the crowd participate in the activities like burning&comma; looting&comma; shouting and abusing etc&period; After the failure of removal of grievances&comma; a norm emerges which justifies the limitations of the crowd behavior&period; It is because of a norm that a calm and cool crowd comes into action and also enters into the terrifying moods&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&&num;160&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Limitations of crowd behavior<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p> &&num;160&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There are at least four considerations with which the crowd behavior can be limited&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;1&period; Emotional needs of the members<br &sol;>&NewLine;2&period; The mores of the members<br &sol;>&NewLine;3&period; The leadership of crowd<br &sol;>&NewLine;4&period; The external control over the crowd <&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&&num;160&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>1&period;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Emotional needs of members <&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p> &&num;160&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&NewLine;The emotional needs&comma; sentiments and prejudices of the members are expressed by the crowd behavior&period; A person may do those things in a crowd which can not be done by him&sol;her lonely&period; Crowd allows its members to express impulses&comma; hostilities&comma; and aggressions etc&period; For example a person restrains the impulses if he&sol;she likes to break the things&period; Contrary to this&comma; a person is not bound to restrain the impulses while acting in a crowd&period; Hence&comma; it is proved that crowd behavior fulfills the emotional needs of the members&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&&num;160&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>2&period;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Mores of members<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p> &&num;160&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&NewLine;The members are bound to act within the limits of their mores&period; People do not violate the mores in a crowd&period; A crowd can kill a person but can not eat the flesh of the person because it is against the mores of the members&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&&num;160&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>3&period;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; Crowd Leadership<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p> &&num;160&semi;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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