CROWD PSYCHOLOGY: Understanding the Phenomenon and Its Causes (10 Books in One Volume)
Classic Studies of Mass Persuasion, Social Contagion, and Public OpinionBy Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Gustave Le Bon, Sigmund Freud, Charles Mackay, Wilfred Trotter, Everett Dean Martin, Walter Lippmann, Gerald Stanley Lee, William McDougall
Length122h 54m
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Crowd Psychology gathers ten foundational investigations into collective behavior, tracing how emotion, suggestion, imitation, leadership, fear, and political rhetoric shape public action. Ranging from philosophical reflection and social criticism to early psychoanalysis, political commentary, and emergent social-scientific argument, the volume reveals both the explanatory power and the ideological limits of classic crowd theory. Its standout value lies in the sustained tension between accounts that regard crowds as irrationally contagious and those that examine the social conditions through which mass opinion is formed. The contributors represent a wide intellectual arc, from Enlightenment thought through nineteenth-century studies of popular delusion to the formative debates of twentieth-century psychology, sociology, and democratic theory. Rousseau's concern with civic association, Le Bon's influential formulations of crowd suggestibility, Freud's revision of group psychology, and Lippmann's analysis of public opinion are placed in productive conversation with writers attentive to instinct, social organization, education, and mass culture. Together, these voices illuminate the origins of modern anxieties about democracy, propaganda, nationalism, and the increasingly mediated public sphere. This anthology is especially recommended for students and general readers seeking a historically grounded introduction to theories of collective life. By assembling divergent styles and assumptions in one volume, it invites critical comparison rather than passive acceptance. Readers will find a rich resource for understanding enduring debates about crowds, leadership, persuasion, and the fragile relation between individual judgment and social power.
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Publish dateSep 18, 2017
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Table of contents
1Mind and Behavior: 5 Classic Psychological Books
2CROWD PSYCHOLOGY: Understanding the Phenomenon and Its Causes (10 Books in One Volume)
3Introduction
4Foreword
5Book I
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6Chapter I. Subject of the First Book
7Chapter II. The First Societies
8Chapter III. The Right of the Strongest
9Chapter IV. Slavery
10Chapter V. That We Must Always Go Back to a First Convention
11Chapter VI. The Social Compact
12Chapter VII. The Sovereign
13Chapter VIII. The Civil State
14Chapter IX. Real Property
15Book II
16Chapter I. That Sovereignty is Inalienable
17Chapter II. That Sovereignty is Indivisible
18Chapter III. Whether the General Will is Fallible
19Chapter IV. The Limits of the Sovereign Power
20Chapter V. The Right of Life and Death
21Chapter VI. Law
22Chapter VII. The Legislator
23Chapter VIII. The People
24Chapter IX. The People (continued)
25Chapter X. The People (continued)
26Chapter XI. The Various Systems of Legislation
27Chapter XII. The Division of the Laws
28Book III
29Chapter I. Government in General
30Chapter II. The Constituent Principle in the Various Forms of Government
31Chapter III. The Division of Governments
32Chapter IV. Democracy
33Chapter V. Aristocracy
34Chapter VI. Monarchy
35Chapter VII. Mixed Governments
36Chapter VIII. That All Forms of Government Do Not Suit All Countries
37Chapter IX. The Marks of a Good Government
38Chapter X. The Abuse of Government and Its Tendency to Degenerate
39Chapter XI. The Death of the Body Politic
40Chapter XII. How the Sovereign Authority Maintains Itself
41Chapter XIII. The Same (continued)
42Chapter XIV. The Same (continued)
43Chapter XV. Deputies or Representatives
44Chapter XVI. That the Institution of Government is Not a Contract
45Chapter XVII. The Institution of Government
46Chapter XVIII. How to Check the Usurpations of Government
47Book IV
48Chapter I. That the General Will is Indestructible
49Chapter II. Voting
50Chapter III. Elections
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