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 riots that took place in Rourkela. Chatterjee (1967) investigated the Rourkela riots of 1964, six weeks after the incident. Following the disturbances in East Pakistan, refugees started flowing into Calcutta and from Calcutta to Rourkela on their way to Dandakaranya in Madhya Pradesh. At Rourkela railway station they were served lunch. [...]
In this essay we will discuss about the basics of group, conformity and deviance. 1. Essay on Groups: The basic social environment is the group. Each individual is a member of many groups like the family group, the school group, the -work group, the social club group etc. Within each group the individual assumes a "position" such as the child, [...]
