Mob Mentality Research Paper

This is shown through the article by cbs news titled Fear Factor: How Herd Mentality Drives Us when they state, “ It's the idea that the individual members of a herd relate, behave in a similar fashion… If they act too much out of the norm, more often than not they're singled out and identified by a predator - and don't survive very long.” It is also shown through Time machine (1905): An Eyewitness Account of Lynching, and through To Kill A Mockingbird. These show that people within a mob-mentality act differently than normal, come up with their own twisted form of justice, and can be seen as temporarily insane for a short period of time. Many people allowed for the mobs to occur and that ended badly. So, if you allow a mob to happen, you are allowing insanity to

Book Report on The New Ethnic Mob by William Kleinknecht The New Ethic Mob by William Kleinknecht explores how the current criminals involved in organized crime are no longer just the Italians. He could be Cuban, Chinese, Russian, African-American, Haitian, or Jamaican. These are the new breed of more sophisticated and more brutal organized criminals. In the preface of the book Kleinknecht states not to mistake this work for a case against immigration in the United States.

The mob mentality could be or give a positive or negative effect, for instance a positive effect on a Mob mentality was the civil-rights protest that took place in 1955 called The Montgomery Bus Boycott, in Alabama. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride the city buses, to battle against segregated seating, it was the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. It took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, 4 days before the boycott Rosa Parks was detained, simply because she didn’t yield her seat which was in the front of the bus to a white man. As a result The U.S. Supreme Court ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system, and the main leader of the boycott was Martin Luther King Jr. A negative effect would be the KKK, they were unfortunately a mob of angry white men that despised colored people, there was a large amount of deaths and destruction that mob created at the time, because they were primarily driven by anger.

Mob mentality is one of humanity's greatest threats and will always be and will always be mysteriously carried through every future generation. As shown in the Salem witch trials and the McCarthy trials, everything starts with something and that something has a reason for doing something. If these trials would have never happened then we would still have a lesson to learn. If we do not study history and historical mishaps like this, then we are doomed to repeat it. Aside from the bloodshed, chaos, and mislead lives, there will always be a something to hold onto and that is the hope we should always have to fight

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

Lynching is a mob action where a person is killed by a mob through beating, torture, shooting or hanging. Lynching was common in the US from 1880’s to 1960’s, with a peak in 1920’s. The most lynched people were African-American men though other people were lynched in other occasions. The main reason for lynching was the perceived breaking of social norms. Whites lynched black men to enforce white supremacy. At this time, there was a popular belief that black people were inferior. Whites would kill black people and take away their property since they believed that black people did not deserve a high social status in the society. Most of lynching incidents happened in the Southern States. Only a few happened

After reading and viewing the mob mentality pieces, I conclude in which mob mentality can create a cruel mindset that effect people negatively. One reason I believe that mob mentality is cruel is because Edmonds states that mobs, “lose their individual values and principals and adopt the group’s principles, which, during a riot, are usually to cause destruction and avoid detection.” The above states that people lose their ethical thinking, and decide to go along with the group and make horrendous decisions. Even though the mobs can be powerful and exciting, the individuals in a mob make bad decisions and feel at the time they will not be affected by the situation(s). In the photograph, the illustration shows how cruel a human being can be.

“A study made under the auspices of the Southern Commission for the Study of Lynching, of which Dr. George Fort Milton, editor of the Chattanooga News, is chairman, of the 21 lynchings of 1930 Dr. Raper asserts that "2 of the 1930 mob victims were innocent of crime (they were not even accused), and there is grave doubt of the guilt of 11 others. In 6 of these 11 cases there is considerable doubt as to just what crimes, if any, were committed, and in the other 5 in which there is no question as to the crimes committed, there is considerable doubt as to whether the mobs got the guilty

This white mob lynching was also directed to other group’s Native American, Mexicans and Chinese. The white mob staged this violence in public places for crowd to witness. The local law enforcement refused to get involved for fear of public execution and they did not want to provoke disorder among the public. (Wood, 2009)

When the Jim Crow laws became active there was an increase in lynching, and these were caused by Mobs. The Jim Crow laws tarnished any civil rights and freedom the African Americans ever had. Many white supremacists thought that they could take advantage of that. Some people did not support the behavior of the mob; however, they still did it because others we're doing it too. This is called mob mentality. The human race has an behavior called herd behavior; therefore, meaning they are influenced by peers to adapt to certain behaviors. This is when people tend to do what others around them are doing (Smith 1). An example would be if a person would listen to different music when with friends than he or she would alone (Smith 1). Mobs have influenced herd

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.

Me and my class recently learned about Mob Mentality. In the stories we read there were many examples of this and the consequences of it. There are many consequences to mob mentality. One example is in "Monsters Are Due On Maple Street." The people all follow the crowd and up resorting to violence instead of using their own reasoning. Another example is in "The Salem Witch Trials." Where one person thought up the myth of witches then soon everyone believed witches were among them. But, there is also "wisdom of the crowd." Wisdom of the crowd is when the crowd does the right thing. There are examples of this is "Follow the Leader." In this story there are examples of the good of mob mentality, such as safety in numbers, and how usually, the

According to Emerson’s Self-Reliance, “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude after own own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” On the contrary, life during the 19th century was not private or peaceful. Many employees were mistreated and their rights were violated especial during the late 1960s after the Vietnam War. Jimmy Hoffa, the leader of the successful labor union the Teamsters, was a hero to the mistreated trucking employees by gaining the employees benefits and respect. However, his escalating success led to his own personal turmoil. As a result of Hoffa’s mob mentality and deathly relationships earned Hoffa

Several criminological theories developed to explain general deviance is now used in gang research because they offer explanations of why people join gangs (Tobin, 2008). This paper draws on those existing sociological research in identifying some theories used in explaining gang formation. The theories discussed are social structure, social conflict, and social process theories. It is also going to cover some branches of those theories; social disorganization theory, strain theory, Sub Culture theory, integrated Structural Marxist theory, Social Learning, differential opportunity theory, Social Control theory, and Labeling Theory. All of which shows connectivity and highlight elements of strain in different forms as they relate to gang formation.

The concept of lynch law as invoked by Ida B. Wells-Barnett coordinates a specific relation between the violence of lynching and cultural institutions and practices. It comes to name the symbolic violence of the state, which, by maintaining recognition for the possibility of life without lynching on its own terms, precisely conditions the possibility for lynching’s endurance. By using the term lynch law, Wells-Barnett intervenes in the political situation by correcting what is really a misrecognition of the cultural logic that forms the relay between law and lynching, and moreover, that enables the endurance and proliferation of lynching violence. This is not to advance a historical claim that all events of lynching followed a strict or monolithic