Crowds in the 21st Century: Perspectives from Contemporary Social Science

ISBN-13: 9780415635905 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 196 str.

John Drury; Clifford Stott

Opis

This volume presents the latest theory and research on crowd events and crowd behaviour from across a range of social sciences - including psychology, sociology, law, and communication studies.

Spis treści

Foreword David Canter  1. Contextualising the crowd in contemporary social science John Drury and Clifford Stott  2. The Madrid bombings and popular protest: misinformation, counter-information, mobilisation and elections after ‘11-M’ Cristina Flesher Fominaya  3. Public order policing in South Yorkshire, 1984–2011: the case for a permissive approach to crowd control David P. Waddington  4. Post G20: The challenge of change, implementing evidence-based public order policing James Hoggett and Clifford Stott  5. The crowd as a psychological cue to in-group support for collective action against collective disadvantage Martijn van Zomeren and Russell Spears  6. Crowd disasters: a socio-technical systems perspective Rose Challenger and Chris W. Clegg  7. Part of the solution, not the problem: the crowd's role in emergency response Jennifer Cole, Montine Walters and Mark Lynch  8. The experience of collective participation: shared identity, relatedness and emotionality Fergus Neville and Stephen Reicher  9. On modelling the influence of group formations in a crowd Gerta Köster, Michael Seitz, Franz Treml, Dirk Hartmann and Wolfram Klein  10. Contributions of social science to agent-based models of building evacuation B. E. Aguirre, Sherif El-Tawil, Eric Best, Kimberly B. Gill and Vladimir Fedorov  11. Mass action and mundane reality: an argument for putting crowd analysis at the centre of the social sciences Stephen Reicher

O autorze

John Drury is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Sussex, UK.

Clifford Stott is Visiting Professor in the Socio-Technical Centre, University of Leeds and Managing Director at CCM (Crowd & Conflict Management) Limited.