Briefly acquaint yourself with the Encyclopedia Britannica entry about Gustave L

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Briefly acquaint yourself with the Encyclopedia Britannica entry about Gustave Le Bon: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gustave-Le-Bon

Afterwards read a couple of pages from the following work by this author:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110216074133/http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=BonCrow.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1

Please write in your own words about author views after reading of few pages.

Minimum 300 words.

Explanation / Answer

Gustave Le Bon was a French social psychologist, he was known for his psychological study of crowds. Acc to Gustave, many a time individual forms a psychology which is more complaint with the psychology of crowd. Crowd of mob or a group as in whole is more power compared to individual alone. We have seen in the history that many fights are fought on this basis. where the individual did not had courage but gathered courage with the help of crowd. We can see strikes against government, in the companies for the demands of citizens or emplyess respectively.

Such collective minds often set standards, ethic levels or any unsaid norms. Gustave also states that it sometimes so happen that whenever a man is in the company of crowd he is able to make decision, his own individual thinking power, ability is lost. He can not think unless he is in the crowd. This often happens in villages, where people are more habital of being together all the time rather that being alone. Gustave also further stated that individual losts in consciousness and gets hypnotized by the crowd. This oftne happens with teenagers, as they are easily influenced, they do not act according their own conscious rather go by the herd mentality.

Gustave stated that crowd can be dangerous also, which is why often mob psychology is studied, as in why there is such rage during any game, if the game is lost, why are the things set on fire rather than taking it an easy mode.

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