After reading this article you will learn about:- 1. Meaning of Crowds 2. Types of Crowds 3. Features 4. Size 5. Composition 6. Information Flow. Meaning of Crowds: The French Sociologist Gustave Le Bon (1895) devoted a whole book to study the nature of crowds; he described how the people in a crowd often think, feel and act in extreme [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the theories of crowd behaviour. According to Le Bon (1895), collective outbursts are a feature of the mass society which is characteristic of modern age with huge cities, in which crowd mentality prevails. The origins of Soviet Revolution (1917) and Fascist revolutions in Germany and Italy in the thirties are traced to [...]
Probably the most ancient method to influence the attitudes, beliefs and opinion of the people was that made by Asoka (250 B.C.) through the pillar and rock edicts, which are there even to this day. But with it also is associated one of the most paradoxical events in human history. The edicts of Asoka are in Brahmi script which went [...]