Lj- Socio – Unit 8 Briefly acquaint yourself with the Encyclopedia Britannica entry about Gustave Le Bon:Afterwards read a couple of pages from the following work by this author: bin/toccer-new2? id=BonCrow.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/par sed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1. Please discuss this reading assignment in light of the reading materials for this unit. Reference: Le Bon, G. (1926).The Crowd: A study in popular mind. London: T. Fisher Unwin. Answer: Gustave Le Bonwasborn in May 7, 1841, in Nogent-le-Rotrou, France but later died on December 13, 1931, in Marnes-la-Coquette.He was a French social psychologist that was well known for his study on psychological characteristics of crowds. He wrote several books onanthropologyandarchaeology, but his interests later shifted to naturalscienceandsocial psychology. He asserted that history is the product of racial or national character together with emotion, yet not intelligence which is seen as the dominant force in social evolution (Le Bon, 1926). Le Bon was of the belief that modern life was increasingly characterized by crowd assemblages. In his most popular work, he stated that conscious personality of an individual in a crowd is submerged and that thecollectivecrowdminddominates; implying thatcrowd behaviour is unanimous, emotional, and intellectually weak (Le Bon,1926). Le Bon argued that anumerically strongassemblageof individuals does not suffice to form a crowd .He viewed and made comparison of a crowd as easily heroic as criminal. He defined the word "crowd" means a gathering of individuals of whatever nationality, profession, sex and whatever reason that has brought them together. But frompsychological point of view, the expression"crowd" assumes quite a different
