The Myth of the Madding Crowd

By: McPhail, Clark

Book Overview

Crowd behavior is one of the most colorful but least understood forms of human social behavior. This volume is a major contribution to the field of collective behavior, with implications for social movement analysis. McPhail's critical assessment of the major theories of crowd behavior establishes that, whatever their particular limitations and strengths, all share a general and serious flaw: their explanations were developed without prior examination...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202304248
• ISBN13: 9780202304243
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Aldine Transaction
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"