Contemporary understanding of riots: classical crowd psychology, ideology and the social identity approach
(2016)
Journal Article
Stott. (2016). Contemporary understanding of riots: classical crowd psychology, ideology and the social identity approach. Public Understanding of Science, 2-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662516639872
This article explores the origins and ideology of classical crowd psychology, a body of theory reflected in contemporary popularised understandings such as of the 2011 English ‘riots’. This article argues that during the nineteenth century, the crowd... Read More about Contemporary understanding of riots: classical crowd psychology, ideology and the social identity approach.