Mass behavior and community organization: Reflections on a peaceful demonstration.

Mann, Philip A.; Iscoe, Ira

doi:10.1037/h0030459

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“…Finally, social scientists have given some attention to the cooperative control of demonstrations by civilian and police participants (cf. Shellow & Roemer 1969;Mann & Iscoe 1971).…”

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Individual and Collective Behaviors Within Gatherings, Demonstrations, and Riots

1983

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The life cycles of gatherings, demonstrations, and riots begin with an assembling phase and end with a dispersal phase. The three types of events are primarily distinguished by the form and content of individual and collective behaviors that occur in the interim phase when a number of people are in the same locale at the same time. We review the past 15 years' research on behaviors in this phase. We first consider some elementary forms of collective behavior that frequently occur in all gatherings, demonstrations, and riots. We next examine more complex dimensions and forms of behavior within political, religious, and sport demonstrations. We then review research on the individual and aggregate violence against person, property, and property rights that distinguishes riots. Finally, we note some recurring patterns in the research on all three types of events, and we identify problems warranting further investigation.

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“…Finally, social scientists have given some attention to the cooperative control of demonstrations by civilian and police participants (cf. Shellow & Roemer 1969;Mann & Iscoe 1971).…”

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Individual and Collective Behaviors Within Gatherings, Demonstrations, and Riots

1983

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“…Experience has been recorded for a variety of social system levels; laboratory experiments (Johnson and Tullar, 1972), college campuses (Mann and Iscoe, 1971), social and government agencies (Walton, 1968;Walton, 1969;Shaw, Fischer, and Kelley, 1973), and international crises (Young, 1967;Young, 1972).…”

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Third Party Role in Ethnic Conflict

Hare

1975

Social Dynamics

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“…Accordingly, studies of social spacing have tended to focus on the collective behavior of spontaneous social groupings such as crowds (Freedman, 1975), demonstrations (Heirich, 1971;Mann & Iscoe, 1971), and/or riots (McPhail & Wohlstein, 1983) rather than participation in more permanent social institutions.…”

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“…Although ethnomethodologists and those influenced by Erving Goffman (1959) have an interest in such matters, the number of research studies in the past few decades has been limited by the tendency of the followers of Mead to focus on linguistic rather than nonverbal communication and by the aforementioned tendency of social science to focus on macro- rather than microstructural questions of human society. Accordingly, studies of social spacing have tended to focus on the collective behavior of spontaneous social groupings such as crowds (Freedman, 1975), demonstrations (Heirich, 1971; Mann & Iscoe, 1971), and/or riots (McPhail & Wohlstein, 1983) rather than participation in more permanent social institutions.…”

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Sitting in Church

Sullins

2012

Sage Open

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Giddens' structuration theory suggests that social zoning or regionalization in worship services may occur on a front-to-back axis. To test this prediction, we observed the seating of individuals (N = 3,426) at worship services over a 3-year period at 35 churches in three Protestant denominations: Southern Baptist, United Methodist, and Episcopalian. We found that persons seated in congregations are structured into three zones front to rear. Earlier arrivers in church tend to sit in the front region and late arrivers in the back region; this tendency is strongest in large congregations and in small churches. The close fit to the data of a constrained loglinear model (p = .65) provides evidence that all the hypothesized effects are present. We argue that Giddens' and Goffman's categories are validated by and helpful for understanding regions in worship, and that this understudied area of research has value for understanding the sociology of religious congregations as well as structuring worship experiences and worship spaces.

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Mass behavior and community organization: Reflections on a peaceful demonstration.

Cited by 8 publications

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Individual and Collective Behaviors Within Gatherings, Demonstrations, and Riots

Individual and Collective Behaviors Within Gatherings, Demonstrations, and Riots

Third Party Role in Ethnic Conflict

Sitting in Church

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