Crowds in the 21st Century
Perspectives from contemporary social science
- 196 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
Crowds in the 21st Century presents the latest theory and research on crowd events and crowd behaviour from across a range of social sciences, including psychology, sociology, law, and communication studies. Whether describing the language of the crowd in protest events, measuring the ability of the crowd to empower its participants, or analysing the role of professional organizations involved in crowd safety and public order, the contributions in this volume are united in their commitment to a social scientific level of analysis.
The crowd is often depicted as a source of irrationality and danger – in the form of riots and mass emergencies. By placing crowd events back in their social context – their ongoing historical and proximal relationships with other groups and social structures – this volume restores meaning to the analysis of crowd behaviour. Together, the studies described in this collection demonstrate the potential of crowd research to enhance the positive experience of crowd participants and to improve design, planning, and management around crowd events.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword
- 1. Contextualising the crowd in contemporary social science
- 2. The Madrid bombings and popular protest: misinformation, counter-information, mobilisation and elections after '11-M'
- 3. Public order policing in South Yorkshire, 1984–2011: the case for a permissive approach to crowd control
- 4. Post G20: The challenge of change, implementing evidence-based public order policing
- 5. The crowd as a psychological cue to in-group support for collective action against collective disadvantage
- 6. Crowd disasters: a socio-technical systems perspective
- 7. Part of the solution, not the problem: the crowd's role in emergency response
- 8. The experience of collective participation: shared identity, relatedness and emotionality
- 9. On modelling the influence of group formations in a crowd
- 10. Contributions of social science to agent-based models of building evacuation
- 11. Mass action and mundane reality: an argument for putting crowd analysis at the centre of the social sciences
- Index