The myth of the madding crowd
The myth of the madding crowd
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10.2307/2579983
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发表时间：
1991
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C. Mcphail
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作者：
C. Mcphail
群体行为是人类社会行为中最丰富多彩但最不为人理解的形式之一。本书是对集体行为领域的重大贡献，对社会运动分析具有重要意义。麦克菲尔对群体行为的主要理论的批判性评估表明，无论它们有什么特殊的局限性和优势，它们都有一个普遍而严重的缺陷：它们的解释是在没有事先检查要解释的行为的情况下提出的。作者借鉴了广泛的实证研究（包括他自己仔细的实地工作），对临时聚会提出了新的描述。他提出了聚会的生命周期和聚会中集体行为形式的分类，以及将这些形式和聚会组合成更大的事件、活动和浪潮。麦克菲尔还对有目的的行为者构建集体行动的各种方式提出了新的解释。
Crowd behavior is one of the most colorful but least understood forms of human social behavior. This volume is a major contribution to the field of collective behavior, with implications for social movement analysis. McPhail's critical assessment of the major theories of crowd behavior establishes that, whatever their particular limitations and strengths, all share a general and serious flaw: their explanations were developed without prior examination of the behaviors to be explained. Drawing on a wide range of empirical studies that include his own careful field work, the author offers a new characterization of temporary gatherings. He presents a life cycle of gatherings and a taxonomy of forms of collective behavior within gatherings, as well as combinations of these forms and gatherings into larger events, campaigns and waves. McPhail also develops a new explanation for various ways in which purposive actors construct collective actions.