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A. CROWD

 Definition
The crowd is defined as a relatively large number of people in close proximity to each other (this is sometimes referred to as localized collectivities). The crowd reacts at once to a common focus or concern.
This is different than the mass, which refers to people who are concerned about a common concern and influence each other's thinking but are not within close proximity of one another (often referred to as dispersed collectivities).
Crowds share characteristics:
  • They do not define how to behave or share clear expectations on what will happen.
  • They often feel something must be done right away to address their common concern.
  • Attitudes and ideas about the common concern spread very quickly among crowd members.
  • They often do and say things that they would normally not do, and they go along with the actions of others in the crowd.

Crowd Types


There are four different types of crowds.
1. Casual Crowd
This crowd probably formed as a casual crowd:
That person holding the sign and standing on the platform over there probably prompted people to stop and listen. Casual crowds are loosely organized and emerge spontaneously. The people forming the crowd have very little interaction at first and usually are not familiar with each other.
2. Conventional Crowd
Conventional crowds result from more deliberate planning with norms that are defined and acted upon according to the situation. See, this crowd below is starting to form a circle around the man on the platform. They have decided that this is the appropriate action to take.
3. Expressive Crowds
Expressive crowds form around an event that has an emotional appeal. It seems the man on the platform is talking about the recent tax hike that the city council approved. That may be why this crowd below has become engaged and is growing.
4. Acting Crowd
An acting crowd refers to a crowd where the members are actively and enthusiastically involved in doing something that is directly related to their goal. This crowd below is now chanting loudly, 'Lower our taxes now!'

Characteristics of a Crowd:

The following are the characteristic features of a crowd:


One criterion of the crowd is physical presence. Without such physical presence there can be no crowd. The size of the crowd is limited by the distance which the eye can see and the ear can hear.
Since people cannot remain physically present for any great length of time this means that the crowd is a temporary social group.


It is “occasion” entity which is transitory, a creature of the moment and comes to an end as soon as its purpose is realized. The crowd is unorganized. It may have a leader but it has no division of labour. As members of the crowd all the individuals are alike because it has no organisation which can utilize the
individual differences.


B. Mass
A mass is a relatively large number of people with a common interest,
though they may not be in close proximity (Lofland 1993), For example people doing demonstration

C. Public

A public, on the other hand, is an unorganized, relatively diffused group of people who share ideas, such as the Libertarian political party. While these two types of crowds (crowd and mass) are similar, they are not the same. To distinguish between them, remember that members of a mass share interests, whereas members of a public share ideas. The example of public is public society.

References

Collective Behavior: Crowd Types, Mobs & Riots, download in August 26, 2020 from https://study.com/academy/lesson/collective-behavior-crowd-types-mobs-riots.html

Lumen, Collective Behavior, download in August 25, 2020.  from https://courses.lumenlearning.com/sociology/chapter/collective-behavior/
 

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