Collective Behavior without Guile

Chicago in the Late 1940s

Bibliographic Data

ID2516062
AuthorsRalph H Turner (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author)
Year1988
Volume31
Issue3
Pages315-324
Publication date1988-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1389201
OpenAlexW2042785791
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

The formal program in collective behavior at the University of Chicago was at a low point in the late 1940s, but interest in collective behavior remained prominent in race relations and several other vital programs. The early Chicago writings on collective behavior are often misinterpreted as expressions of the more recent clinical perspective and rationality debates. Robert Park viewed social unrest as a healthy rather than pathological manifestation, saw crowds as purposeful, and held that our hopes and dreams, rather than hardship and distress, are the inspiration for revolutionary activity

Collective behavior · Criminology · Crowds · Economics · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Psychoanalysis · Rationality · Social science · Social unrest · Sociology · Unrest · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology

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