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Gustave LeBon's The Crowd is not only a classic, but one of the best-selling scientific books in social psychology and collective behavior ever written. Here, LeBon analyzes the nature of crowds and their role in political movements. He presents crowd behavior as a problem of science and power, a natural phenomenon with practical implications. Originally published in 1895, LeBon's book was the first to expand the scope of inquiry beyond criminal crowds to include all possible kinds of collective phenomena. Its continuing significance is evident even in the Los Angeles riots of 1992 in which LeBon's theories were cited in testimony.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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As I write this, the President's people are using public opinion polls to find out whether it would better serve his political ends to confess or to continue his denials in the Lewsinky affair. Eerily, this and more was predicted and explained in detail in 1895 (!) by the author of The Crowd.
If you want to understand the political scene today--the decline of statesmanship, the rise of spin-meistership, the mindless polling, the pandering to the electorate, the throw-it-against-the-wall-and-see-if-it-sticks lowest common denominator pragmatisim of our political leaders--read this book!
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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Although historically significant, Le Bon's theories served his own political ends. By pathologising the crowd as attavistic and devoid of reason he offered an excuse to those who might use extreme force to quell mass action. Le Bon's fault lies in his inability to place a crowd in a diachronic framework, that is his analysis rests upon a snapshot in time, failing to take into account the historical and political context. This snapshot also fails to take into account that which the crowd is opposing (government, riot police, military). Rather like filming a fight but focussing only on one fighter, half the story is missing. Rather than losing individual identity, individuals often affirm their identity by mass action and to claim that they lose all sense of reason and logic is flawed. Those that partook in the Velvet Revolution or the recent 'Revolution of Roses' in Georgia, were not devoid of reason but were fuelled by it. Le Bon's work is fascinating and historically significant, but his theory is deeply flawed.
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Granted, much of what Le Bon writes in The Crowd went over my head. At the same time, a good portion is clear enough for the layperson to grasp.
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