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 [...]
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. [...]
