Dangers Of Mob Mentality

Mob mentality and herd behavior have a negative behavior on people because of their individuality and rational thinking. People are influenced by others behaviors in a group. They can have negative and positive acts on people having individual thinking and it changes people's rational thinking. In the teleplay “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” written by Rod Serling, the article “When Good people Do Bad Things” written by Ann Trafton, and the article “Why Do People Follow The Crowd” reported by ABC news, when someone does not want to share their own idea they do not feel like sharing as a groups. People can also act differently in a group because they do not want to be embarrassed with others.

Mob mentality can occur in any society. It can take place at any time, any day or any night. Mob mentality does not have a direct target. It will take over anyone, leaving them with no control over themselves. Mob mentality proves that under critical situations people will be selfish and follow others’ leads; however, the leads people usually follow are not the ones best for them. Due to large amounts of stress everyone carries, people do not think as clearly as they normally would. Those horrible leads that people choose to follow will eventually cause groups to become out of control. Violence usually ensues when within

Often the people of the mob don’t act in a reasonable way, because they are acting on their uncertainties. After being confronted by his friend Walter who wanted to lynch the prisoner Atticus defended, Atticus said, “‘Mr. Cunningham’s basically a good man, […] he just has his blind spots along with the rest of us’” (210). Another example of people acting cohesively in an uneducated manor would be the results of Tom Robinson’s case, where he was wrongfully convicted of raping Mayella Ewell, by a jury who, (bar one) without considering the defense’s evidence, convicted him because of his race, a gross oversight of justice and logic. In general humans tend to

The brisk air fills the lungs of the students who shout, cheer, and sing in the bleachers of the sports stadium. One student starts the chant, as others follow, the next chanting louder than the first. It’s unlikely that these students would be yelling and singing the way they do if they were the only person doing it. This is mob mentality. The person starting this trend has a threshold of zero, because they didn’t need anyone to do it before they did, whoever is next has a threshold of one and the next, two and so on. Mob mentality is how people are influenced by their peers to adopt certain behaviors and a threshold is how many people it takes for this influence to be adapted by their peers. Mob mentality can be seen in many ways in The Crucible and at Blue Valley West. Groups spreading the pressures of things like bullying, accusations, and clothing in order to fit in are all great examples of mob mentality.

Mob Hysteria Do you ever feel you are like the one percent and the other ninety-nine percent are surrounding you? That feel, it describes mob hysteria. Mob Hysteria produces a sense of fear, paranoia , and false accusations towards each other. Throughout history mob hysteria has tore society apart especially during the cold war, Joesph Mccarthy gained much notoriety with his false accusations against the American government with algelly 51 known communist working in the American government. Which prompted Arthur Miller to write his book called The Crucible.

In The Ox-Bow Incident, facts are not provided right away. "They don't know yet who. But somebody's been in down on Drew's range and killed Kinkaid, and they think there's cattle gone too." (Van Tilburg 45). This information is extremely vague; they do not know what happened or how it happened. This decision to create a mob is completely based on speculation. They do not have a description of the rustlers. The mob is going on an adventure blind. And no way to know the truth.

Mob Hysteria can be a possible cause from losing your moral rights; however, there are positive sides to this phenomenon. According to the Collins Dictionary, “mob hysteria is the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd”

Also, many people would not hold themselves accountable for violent behavior when part of a mob, because they perceive the action as the group’s doing, and thus don’t take any personal responsibility for it. With all this comes a total erasure of social inhibitions, as well as a total erasure of basic ethics and morals. These people seem to trade these things for what is supposed to be normal and

Mob mentality, when people find power in numbers. Quantity over quality. And use it to fight for what they believe in or what others push them to do, whether it is right or wrong. These can easily go wrong and be used to overpower others and to take power into their own hands. When the mob shows up right before the case in court starts they come in groups and are fully confident in themselves of coming for and hurting Tom Robinson, believing that their big mob and power can easily overpower others and bring themselves up higher.

The Mob siphons off public funds, rigs contracts, corrupts unions which many hard working people with legitimate jobs

You think of a group of hoodlums who tote guns, sell drugs, and ruin neighborhoods as thugs, and gang members. These are things not tolerated or seen as good in society so it’s considered a violation of social norms. A street gang is group of people that form an allegiance based on various social needs and engage in acts that can cause harm to public health and safety. Members of street gangs engage in, or have engaged in gang-focused criminal activity either individually or as a group, they create and fear and intimidation in the community. They are punished by society and the consequences are different depending on the types of crimes committed. Societies “punishments” on the crime committed is what sociologist consider deviance; and

Previously, before the excerpt a drunk man got shot by Sherburn, thus resulting in a lynch mob going after Sherburn and marching to his house. Subsequently, the mob create chaos and knocks down the fence to confront Sherburn however, they rapidly retreat and keep a safe distance from his house, being Sherburn appears with a rifle on his hand standing on the porch. Lastly, leading to the excerpt Sherburn delivers a speech regarding the mob mentality of the people and attacking their cowardice by doing a lynch in a mob.

What is social deviance? Social deviance is acting against the norms of a society. There are a few things that can can be caused from the act of deviance. The social norm in our society here is to talk in the first person, not the third person. On Wednesday, my act of deviance was talking in the third person, a subtle approach to this assignment, but everyone knew I was being different. My goal in this essay is to inform on the different sociology ideas I thought of while I was being deviant. The five ideas I first thought of were: privilege of ignorance, social-self, agents of socialization, sanctions, and memory.

Mob Mentality Individuals led by similar mentalities often in crowds to destroy, rebel, protest, or rejoice. Most crowds with negative attitudes toward something usually lead to small or large scale violence. In Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, the setting is England and France, before and during the French Revolution. Mobs form many times as a result of major causes such as court trials, or minor causes such as a funeral. Crowds of people with a negative mindset form into a mob lose their sense of humanist rationality and start to behave like irrational animals.

Gang membership has accounted for the increase in the number of youth and street gangs since the 1950’s. The development of gangs globally, especially in New Zealand, exhibits the fact that there are significant influences pushing people towards becoming a gang member. There is a range of social and psychological factors that underpin the dynamics of a gang’s structure in which they help outsiders gain insight into how gang involvement is evoked. Research has established that there are push and pull factors to what we associate with the theory of ‘multiple marginality.’ This theory tackles how groups feel after being left on the boundaries of society, an action that consequently encourages them to become involved in deviant behavior. The growth in gangs, predominantly those with a heavy Maori influence -such as the Mongrel Mob and Black Power - has caused controversy as to whether ‘multiple marginality’ impacts and is solely responsible for this issue. There may be no single reason behind a spike in gang membership however; having the ability to understand the role of social and psychological factors is needed if we seek to address this concern. This alone is a key aspect in addressing the development of present gangs and why they are becoming more dominant in society.