In the light of the reading materials for this unit, I will try discuss the crowd of Gustave Le Bon which is a study of popular mind. In his book one, Le Bon has shown us several characteristics of the crowd psychology such as “impulsiveness, irritability, and incapacity to reason, the absence of judgments of the critical spirit, the exaggeration of sentiments, and so forth” (Wikipedia.org). Le Bon defined “Crowd in its ordinary sense as means a gathering of individuals of whatever nationality, professor, or sex, and whatever the chances that have brought them together” (web.archive.org). Le Bon claimed “that an individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grain of sand, which the mind stirs up at will” (Wikipedia.org).
“From the psychological point of view the expression "crowd" assumes quite a different signification. Under certain given circumstances, and only under those circumstances, an agglomeration of men presents new characteristics very different from those of the individuals composing it” (web.archive.org).For Le Bon, “the sentiments and ideas of all the persons in the gathering take
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In his book, “Le Bon has also detailed three key processes that create the psychological crowd: noted as anonymity, contagion, and suggestively” (Wikipedia.org). For Le Bon, “Anonymity provides to rational individuals a feeling of invincibility and the loss of personal responsibility. An individual becomes primitive, unreasoning, and emotional. This lack of self-restraint allows individuals to "yield to instincts" and to accept the instinctual drives of their "racial
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.
The artist that I will be focusing on is Jean-Baptiste Oudry, a French artist who focused mainly on painting animals. He was born in Paris, France on March 17, 1686 and died on April 30, 1755 in Beauvais, France. He was a French Rococo painter and specialized in painting animals. Oudry first studied portrait painting with Nicolas de Largillière. And later met Jean-Baptiste Massé. Through Massé, he made many connections and one that made his reputation, Louis XV. Oudry created Louis XV hunting a deer in the Forest of Saint-Germain for the king and was later asked to produce more paintings for the king. Oudry started out painting only portraits but later moved to paintings of fruits, animals, as well as religious subjects. Oudry mainly painted but he also engraved. He was a Rococo painter which was a late 18th century artist movement and style.
This is modeled by the fact that people being in groups, causes them to act and think differently than they would have if they had been alone. In her essay, Tavris uses many examples of this: In the case of Kitty Genovese or the late Rodney King who was beat to death by police officers. People have a tendency to act differently in groups, others suffer due to people not wanting to “rock the boat” or they do not want to “embarrass themselves or others if they are wrong” (19). Tavris offers a solution to the way people act in groups, “By understanding the impulse to diffuse responsibility, perhaps as individuals we will be more likely to act. By understanding the social pressures that reward group-think, loyalty and obedience, we can foster those that reward whistle blowing and moral courage. And, as a society, we can reinforce the belief that they also sing who stand and watch” (19). If civilization can solve the dilemma of people acting differently when they are in groups with others, the world could be a much improved place.
These two quotes by Lessing and Asch tie together to illustrate how powerful a group can be and how significantly a group can affect an individual's psyche. We give in to pressure from external forces such as authority or our peers. According to Lessing there is nothing wrong with belonging to a group, the problem arises when we do not comprehend the social principles that control groups and control us. It is apparent that groups are a significant part of our society. Does it matter how we came to be in a group? In Lessing's article, she appears to lump all groups together, whereas Asch conducts his experiments using different variables in order to study the effect of different group situations.
In the following paper, I will be supporting Nietzsche’s theme that being part of a group can be harmful to individuality. I will support this claim by showing that a person’s behavior changes based on the groups they identify themselves to be in. In the book Subliminal, Leonard Mlodinow discusses different studies at length to prove that unconsciously, people are apt to behave differently once they identify themselves to be in a group. Studies have shown different cognitive biases and unconscious forms of behavior are heavily influenced by external factors. One factor that is especially influential is being part of an in-group or out-group, which creates a dynamic where perception and overall behavior towards self and others is greatly changed. In this essay, I will first show evidence from Nietzsche’s writings that support the claim, including his ideas on conformity and the herd versus the higher man. Then, I will discuss the article Nietzsche’s Sociology by Patrik Aspers, where he deliberates the sociology of Nietzsche’s ideas and discusses his contempt for groups, and shows that although there was an inevitable evolution of humanity that needed groups, they do not serve humanity beneficially. Afterwards, I will present empirical evidence of human behavior changing based on the groups they feel they are a part of. Finally, I will conclude by tying Nietzsche’s ideas on conformity with the observed changes in human behavior to
The vision was to have a colony on the Mississippi River that was a gateway to open and expand trade with the new world. On May 7, 1718, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville and the French Mississippi Company officially founded Nouvelle-Orleans. Bienville would later become governor of the Louisiana colony three different times between the years 1702 and 1743. The city was named after Duke Philippe d'Orléans, who was France's head of state at the time (Briney).
The three main important facts in this article are, Jacques Corriveau is getting charged for fraud, bribery, and a program made by the liberals to successfully help Canada’s appearance in Quebec. Jacques Corriveau was also charged with “money laundering.’’ Jacques Corriveau illegally made $8 million which was going to be used for the sponsorship but never happened. But there's claims being made that he just took that money for himself. The federal liberal party is getting upset at Justin Trudeau because, Justin Trudeau’s allowing non federal politicians to join the liberal party in Quebec. Meanwhile, these non politicians are setting a bad example on the Liberal Party by having previous scandals over the past few years which doesn’t look good
What would it be like to be a member of one of the world's greatest journeys? Though he was just a baby, this was what happened to Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. He was an unintentional addition to Lewis and Clark's expedition to the Pacific ("Sacagawea"). However, the stories of this child do not end with Lewis and Clark's return to St. Louis.
When analyzing social patterns and behaviors, is there a significant difference between the psychology of an individual and groups? Collective and individual behavior is surprisingly similar, and depending on the circumstances, identical. In Charles Siebert essay “An Elephant Crackup,” he validates to readers, through social elephant narratives and herd mentality theory, that similarly to an individual elephant all elephants behave in similar ways. Furthermore, Sherry Turkle in selections from her work Alone Together accounts
Gustave De Molinari, was a classical liberal, who lived from the nineteenth into the early twentieth century. Molinari based his theories around the idea that society follows immutable rules. In his great work, The Production of Security, the rule he explains is one regarding monopoly. Whenever a government grants a monopoly, he explains, the price of the service or product will always rise, and the quality will fall. Why would this be any different for protection? Molinari asks. Wouldn't government monopoly on security produce the same result? Molinari argued that it would.
Pierre Chareau rose from Bordeaux, a humble beginning to rise to become one of the most sought after designers in both France and the rest of the world. He balanced the opulence of traditional French decorations with interior designs in his elegant furniture in a way that remains in sync with modern life. Chareau was a Secular Jew, born in Paris, France. He studied at the Beaux-Arts school. Extraordinarily, rare woods and exotic materials that blended to create clean profiles of movable parts that appeal to the sensibility of progressive art characterize his furniture.
We see people in the crowd was a piece that Kramer did for an office in Sao Paulo. He was inspired by the culture in the city and the mass crowds of unique people he saw on the streets. Kramer has voiced that his inspiration comes from seeing such faces and wondering about
In the context of parties of people, I was particularly interested in finding the patterns of social acceptance, and the ways that people incorporate themselves into groups. An example of such acceptance can be the pattern of individuals who completely ignore groups around them by staring at their phone; compared to those who strike conversations with people they haven’t met before. Addressed, also, are ways that people use more passive technique to identify themselves and how this resembles their social circle.
The famous structure I have selected is the Eiffel tower, named after and built by an engineer Gustave Eiffel who was French.
The first concept that is focused on within this short story is the way humans act when they are amongst a group of people. When amongst a group of people, Millhauser’s work shows that humans are quick to follow each other and they create a herd mentality. An important literary concept Millhauser uses to his advantage to express this is the use of first-person narration. Millhauser uses words such as we and us to group together not only the audience’s feelings and thoughts but also the readers. This is done so strategically to present this first concept of how people herd together in groups during times of hesitation. The first way this is shown is when the audience has the opportunity to volunteer to receive “the mark” from the master (6). Everyone is extremely hesitant and looking at each other for some sort of direction on how to react. “A