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Collective Disadvantage
Contemporary Issues in Social Science
Contemporary Social Science
crowd behaviour
Crowd Event
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Elaborated Social Identity Model
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Free Flow Velocity
Higher Identifiers
Hillsborough Football Stadium Disaster
In-group Members
In-group Support
King's Cross Underground Fire
King's Cross Underground Station
King’s Cross Underground Fire
King’s Cross Underground Station
Lower Identifiers
Mass Casualty Incidents
mass panic
Physical Co-presence
Professional Responders
protests
public order
Public Order Policing
riots
Shared Identity
social psychology
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781138922914
  • Weight: 380g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Jun 2015
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Crowds in the 21st Century 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. Whether describing the language of the crowd in protest events, measuring the ability of the crowd to empower its participants, or analysing the role of professional organizations involved in crowd safety and public order, the contributions in this volume are united in their commitment to a social scientific level of analysis.

The crowd is often depicted as a source of irrationality and danger – in the form of riots and mass emergencies. By placing crowd events back in their social context – their ongoing historical and proximal relationships with other groups and social structures – this volume restores meaning to the analysis of crowd behaviour. Together, the studies described in this collection demonstrate the potential of crowd research to enhance the positive experience of crowd participants and to improve design, planning, and management around crowd events.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science.
About
John Drury is Reader in Social Psychology at the University of Sussex, UK. His research interests include mass emergency behaviour and empowerment in collective action. He has carried out research on crowd behaviour at the July 7th London bombings, anti-poll tax and anti-roads protests, and collective responses to the 2010 Chile earthquake among other crowd events. His work on collective resilience in crowds has been used by a number of organizations including the Department of Health. He convenes a module on the psychology of crowd safety management at Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycombe, UK. Clifford Stott is Principal Research Fellow in Security and Justice in the School of Law at the University of Leeds, UK.