Society, Politics & Law
The social nature of being human
...chemistry’ (p.14). These elements are a collective mind, contagion and suggestibility. In short, Le Bon gave birth to what is today called ‘the classical view of the crowd’, stipulating that being in a crowd leads to a loss of identity with potentially irrational and irresponsible behaviour. In contrast to this, crowd psychologists in the twenty-first century have...