The Myth of the Madding Crowd

Clark McPhail

ISBN 10: 0202303756 / ISBN 13: 9780202303758

Published by Routledge, 1991

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The Myth of the Madding Crowd | Clark McPhail | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 1991 | Routledge | EAN 9780202303758 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Myth of the Madding Crowd
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0202303756
• ISBN 13: 9780202303758
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 16D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 16 millimeters depth
• Weight: 432 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Crowd behavior is one of the most colorful but least understood forms of human social behavior. This volume is a major contribution to the field of collective behavior, with implications for social movement analysis.

McPhail's critical assessment of the major theories of crowd behavior establishes that, whatever their particular limitations and strengths, all share a general and serious flaw: their explanations were developed without prior examination of the behaviors to be explained. Drawing on a wide range of empirical studies that include his own careful field work, the author offers a new characterization of temporary gatherings. He presents a life cycle of gatherings and a taxonomy of forms of collective behavior within gatherings, as well as combinations of these forms and gatherings into larger events, campaigns and waves. McPhail also develops a new explanation for various ways in which purposive actors construct collective actions.

About the Author

Clark McPhail