The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
- Year
- 1895
- Field
- Psychology
- Licence
- Public domain (Project Gutenberg, US)
- Source
- gutenberg
- Length
- about 54,598 words in 41 sections
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BY GUSTAVE LE BON {b. May 7, 1841--d. Dec 13, 1931}
The following work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds.
The whole of the common characteristics with which heredity endows the individuals of a race constitute the genius of the race. When, however, a certain number of these individuals are gathered together in a crowd for purposes of action, observation proves that, from the mere fact of their being assembled, there result certain new psychological characteristics, which are added to the racial characteristics and differ from them at times to a very considerable degree.
Contents
- Part 1 · 36 words
- THE CROWD A STUDY OF THE POPULAR MIND · 1,350 words
- CONTENTS · INTRODUCTION THE ERA OF CROWDS · BOOK I THE MIND OF CROWDS · 12 words
- CHAPTER II THE SENTIMENTS AND MORALITY OF CROWDS · CHAPTER III THE IDEAS, REASONING POWER, AND IMAGINATION OF CROWDS · CHAPTER IV A RELIGIOUS SHAPE ASSUMED BY ALL THE CONVICTIONS OF CROWDS · BOOK II THE OPINIONS AND BELIEFS OF CROWDS · CHAPTER I REMOTE FACTORS OF THE OPINIONS AND BELIEFS OF CROWDS · CHAPTER II THE IMMEDIATE FACTORS OF THE OPINIONS OF CROWDS · CHAPTER III THE LEADERS OF CROWDS AND THEIR MEANS OF PERSUASION · 25 words
- CHAPTER I THE CLASSIFICATION OF CROWDS · CHAPTER II CROWDS TERMED CRIMINAL CROWDS · CHAPTER III CRIMINAL JURIES · CHAPTER IV ELECTORAL CROWDS · CHAPTER V PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLIES · INTRODUCTION. THE ERA OF CROWDS. · 2,597 words
- BOOK I · THE MIND OF CROWDS · CHAPTER I · 3,124 words
- CHAPTER II · THE SENTIMENTS AND MORALITY OF CROWDS · 401 words
- 1. IMPULSIVENESS, MOBILITY, AND IRRITABILITY OF CROWDS. · 907 words
- 2. THE SUGGESTIBILITY AND CREDULITY OF CROWDS. · 2,983 words
- 3. THE EXAGGERATION AND INGENUOUSNESS OF THE SENTIMENTS OF CROWDS. · 933 words
- 4. THE INTOLERANCE, DICTATORIALNESS AND CONSERVATISM OF CROWDS. · 862 words
- 5. THE MORALITY OF CROWDS. · 830 words
- CHAPTER III · THE IDEAS, REASONING POWER, AND IMAGINATION OF CROWDS · 146 words
- 1. THE IDEAS OF CROWDS · 1,409 words
- 2. THE REASONING POWER OF CROWDS · 477 words
- 3. THE IMAGINATION OF CROWDS · 1,179 words
- CHAPTER IV · A RELIGIOUS SHAPE ASSUMED BY ALL THE CONVICTIONS OF CROWDS · 1,772 words
- BOOK II · THE OPINIONS AND BELIEFS OF CROWDS · CHAPTER I · REMOTE FACTORS OF THE OPINIONS AND BELIEFS OF CROWDS · 548 words
- 1. RACE · 298 words
- 2. TRADITIONS · 704 words
- 3. TIME · 428 words
- 4. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS · 1,251 words
- 5. INSTRUCTION AND EDUCATION · 3,098 words
- CHAPTER II · THE IMMEDIATE FACTORS OF THE OPINIONS OF CROWDS · 401 words
- 1. IMAGES, WORDS, AND FORMULAS · 1,821 words
- 2. ILLUSIONS · 562 words
- 3. EXPERIENCE · 549 words
- 4. REASON · 1,068 words
- CHAPTER III · THE LEADERS OF CROWDS AND THEIR MEANS OF PERSUASION · 155 words
- 1. THE LEADERS OF CROWDS. · 3,401 words
- 3. PRESTIGE · 3,375 words
- CHAPTER IV · LIMITATIONS OF THE VARIABILITY OF THE BELIEFS AND OPINIONS OF CROWDS · 135 words
- 1. FIXED BELIEFS · 1,548 words
- 2. THE CHANGEABLE OPINIONS OF CROWDS · 2,096 words
- BOOK III · THE CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF CROWDS · CHAPTER I · THE CLASSIFICATION OF CROWDS · 336 words
- 1. HETEROGENEOUS CROWDS · 543 words
- 2. HOMOGENEOUS CROWDS · 248 words
- CHAPTER II · CROWDS TERMED CRIMINAL CROWDS · 1,437 words
- CHAPTER III · CRIMINAL JURIES · 2,510 words
- CHAPTER IV · ELECTORAL CROWDS · 3,039 words
- CHAPTER V · PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLIES · 6,004 words
