Mob Mentality And Social Conformity

One of the major causes individuals get caught up in mob mentality is because people feel pressured to execute the corrupt actions in order to be accepted in society. Mob mentality can trigger certain emotions to participate in terrible public events in which causes harm to others. In the 1920’s, a horrible incident occurred in Duluth Minnesota which will always be remembered in history.

In the statement on mob - mentality by Nina Munteanu, mob - mentality is when one individual takes fear and uses it to their advantage. They are the ones that are responsible for controlling how others act within the mob. People in the mob also become someone other than themselves. It is as if they are temporarily insane, not thinking straight. A mob - mentality is when the people within the mob come up with their on desired form of justice. I agree with Nina, when she says if you allow the mob to happen, you are allowing insanity to occur.

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

Thomas Fuller once said, “The mob has many heads, but no brains.” In this day in age, mob mentality is seen as having a negative influence on society. Specific behaviors can be triggered by the influence of our peers around us, some of which can cause people to take perilous actions that can have a significant impact on humanity.

Are you the type of person to make decisions based off of the group you're involved with, or do you go your own way and make your own decisions? Whether being involved in a group, or you tend to be a follower, those certain things have a bigger influence on how someone acts, compared to individual human views, that can be founded off of social psychology. Being involved with the group, has the biggest impact on how people choose to obey or disobey certain actions because of the societal pressure, family and religious backgrounds, and having the fear of not fitting in, or conforming.

Human beings are defined as ''social animals'' because in every aspects of life they live together, they form a variety of groups and improve relationships with each other. Interaction with others is a natural result of living in society. In the process of interaction, society and its rules has a social impact on each individual. If people face with any kind of social impact such as group pressure, great part of them show conformity by changing their behaviors, ideas, decisions in expected way. A person conforms if he or she chooses a course of action that a majority favors or that is socially acceptable. Some kind of conformity is natural and socially healthy but obeying all the norms, ideas, and decisions without thinking or accepting

Conformity is a form of social influence, when we conform we act and think like members of our group. Often people even alter or change their personal beliefs to match those around them. When we conform we feel pressured to fit in with others, to be a part of the majority. While we may still have contradicting beliefs towards things, we change our behaviors and actions to match what everybody else is

After reading and viewing the mob mentality pieces, I conclude that mobs were gruesome groups that were hard to stop when in the action. For Instance, in the NPR Radio Diaries, it talks about how a mob a lynched two of three boys and broke into a place station to get the last boy ( “ Strange Fruit: Anniversary of a Lynching” ). This shows that mobs were virtually unstoppable. They were not satisfied until everyone they wanted dead were dead. They were willing break into the holding cells and get in trouble or hurt just to have one more person dead. Another idea that supports this conclusion is from S.E. Smith’s article “ What is Mob Mentality? “, the article talks about about if some people get trampled when there is a lot of urgency or

Social conformity is a dangerous, chaotic force. A simple gathering can spontaneously lead to surges of violence and atrocities. As one stone is thrown, another follows, each one faster than the last. They have muddied their identity into a mob. Social conformity is the suppression of one’s thoughts and identity to conform to the herd.

During the play of “The Crucible” which took place in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1692 all the people in the village were Puritans a protestant group which still exist today. This religion was mixed with the power of government, It was very hard to live in a society with different type of social classes. Many of the people living in Salem were well respected human beings and on the other hand many were selfish and wanted to take advantage of their powers. Witchcraft was prohibited in the village due to that it was part of the religion and if caught trafficking with the devil it can cost your life. Witchcraft was the reason the Crucible started.

“I don’t believe we were put here with all of our differences to conform to a uniform state of mind” ~Sonya Teclat. Conformity is when people change to act the same as other people in their society. The government, media, and social groups are a big part of the society. These things encourage people to conform. One of the books that have people conforming is Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson. In Among the Hidden Jen, one of the characters is very outgoing and brave. Luke another character is very shy, once he meets Jen he conforms to be brave like her. In addition, society encourages conformity through government, media, and social groups.

Most of society conforms as a whole, otherwise one may appear to be “outside” of the society that they live in, becoming unconventional or dangerous to the “norm” of their society. These conventions have a major role within society because they are general agreements on a social behavior. The force making toward conformity in society is essentially the stability of the society itself, which is created by people conforming to please others. However, people who do not

Mob Mentality is a certain behavior that people get when in a large group. (Smith) It is usually used in a negative way because it usually turns into an aggressive behavior and can turn violent sometimes. (Edmonds) People get in groups and they do that, because other people are doing it so they feel like they should do it too. Then the group grows larger. People also do it to try and prove a point or try to boycott something.(Smith) Or because they are upset with the outcome or the final result of something. I think that the behaviors when in a mob are usually very angry or upset. I think that because when people are in a mob things can happen. Like lighting things on fire or destroying things within the city or stealing or even deaths of other people.

Mob mentality is when a group of people usually mad form together and make a very dangerous situation. The group usually ends up being violent and can get easily out of control. Some people join the mob mentality from peer pressure or the need to fit in (Smith 1). The article points out that being in a mob can make people feel like they are invisible or that their actions will not have consequences (Edmonds 1). When reading To Kill a Mockingbird people experience mob mentality first hand.