Purposive Collective Action
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3757067 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clark Mcphail (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Charles W Tucker (University of South Carolina at Columbia) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 81-94 |
| Publication date | 1990-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764290034001008 |
| OpenAlex | W3193286153 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 27 |
Multitudes, crowds, and mobs have preoccupied preachers, politicians, and police for centuries because of their concerns with persuading, producing, or controlling the behavior of the people who compose such gatherings. Crowds have also been the concern of students of society and human behavior, more often to offer explanations for why people behave as they do in crowds than to describe what they do and understand how their behavior comes about. Until relatively recently, this was the fundamental mistake of all students of the crowd: their explanations were based upon few if any firsthand, on-site observations, let alone systematic descriptions, of the phenomena to be explained. Most psychologists and sociologists believed that the crowd transformed the psychological processes of its individual members. Individuals were thought to lose control of their cognitive powers of rationality, volition, and agency under the influence of “the crowd mind” and therefore to mindlessly comply with the suggestions directed at them by charismatic leaders. The result was thought to be mutually inclusive collective behavior. Other psychologists subsequently advanced the counterclaim that crowds never change individuals; instead, individuals are always driven to the crowd, where they behave as they do, because of their similar psychological predispositions. The sights and sounds of the behaviors of surrounding others, driven by similar predispositions, only facilitated participation in what then became mutually inclusive behavior
Action (physics) · Agency (philosophy) · Cognition · Collective action · Computer security · Criminology · Crowd psychology · Crowds · Epistemology · Mistake · Political science · Politics · Rationality · Social science · Sociology · Volition (linguistics) · Law · Media Influence and Health · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Encounters with unjust authority
In common predicament
American Sociological Association
A Behavioristic Account of the Significant Symbol
The reflex arc concept in psychology.
The Rules of Sociological Method
Judging the Presence and Extent of Collective Behavior from Film Records
Spectator Booing and the Home Advantage
The behavioral development of free-living chimpanzee babies and infants
The Not-So-Lonely Crowd
Panic and the Breakdown of Social Order
The Nuremberg Party Rallies, 1923-39
Mead vs. Blumer
Do groups always inhibit individuals' responses to potential emergencies
The Myth of the Madding Crowd
Behavior
Baby feeding and body sway
The Assembling Process
Collective Locomotion as Collective Behavior
They saw a game; a case study
The Conditions of Protest Behavior in American Cities
Southern Sociological Society
Individual and Collective Behaviors Within Gatherings, Demonstrations, and Riots
The Elements and Structure of Openings
Conversion in a Billy Graham Crusade
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2006 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |