The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind Audiobook
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind Audiobook
- Glen Reed
- Authors Republic
- 2019-10-09
- 5 h 25 min
Summary:
Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (1841 -1931) was a People from france polymath who wrote on anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine and physics. He’s most widely known for his 1895 work ‘The Masses: A Study of the Popular Mind’, which is considered a seminal work of audience psychology. In the reserve, Le Bon identifies the primary characteristics of masses mindset as impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to cause, the absence of crucial judgement, and the exaggeration of feelings. Le Bon claims that an specific immersed for some length of time in a crowd soon finds himself in a special psychological condition, which resembles the state in which a hypnotized individual finds himself under the influence of the hypnotizer. One of Le Bon’s troubling insights is a guy descends many rungs in the ladder of civilisation from the simple reality that he forms portion of an organised audience.