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1 online resource (239 pages) |
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"This work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds. The whole of the common characteristics with which heredity endows the individuals of a race constitute the genius of the race. When, however, a certain number of these individuals are gathered together in a crowd for purposes of action, observation proves that, from the mere fact of their being assembled, there result certain new psychological characteristics, which are added to the racial characteristics and differ from them at times to a very considerable degree. 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. I have endeavoured to examine the difficult problem presented by crowds in a purely scientific manner--that is, by making an effort to proceed with method, and without being influenced by opinions, theories, and doctrines. This, I believe, is the only mode of arriving at the discovery of some few particles of truth, especially when dealing, as is the case here, with a question that is the subject of impassioned controversy. A man of science bent on verifying a phenomenon is not called upon to concern himself with the interests his verifications may hurt"--Pref. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved). |
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Print version record. |
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Crowds.
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Crowding (DNLM)D003441
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Crowds. (OCoLC)fst00884278
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Electronic Books.
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Electronic books.
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Psychologie des foules. English
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Available from some providers with title: PsycBOOKS |
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Print version: Le Bon, Gustave, 1841-1931. Psychologie des foules. English. Crowd. London : T.F. Unwin, 1908 |
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