Phil 355 24 September 2013 Conforming to the Crowd: The Face of the Faceless Since the beginning of time‚ humanity sat in the desperate dwellings of their own thoughts cursed to misunderstand all they could ever be. Unrealized potential‚ if you will‚ which dangled in front of their collective selves‚ much like the notorious forbidden fruit that existed in plain sight just hanging slightly out of reach. As humanity rode the ebb of time‚ they endeavored to contemplate that which they could never
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front of a big crowd and there is a lot of free space around you‚ so you move forward slightly because hey‚ why not? It’s a free space except that you have just started an Indiana jones’ technique of rolling a heavy bolder of sack. Those standing behind assume that since more space is being created ahead of them‚ they should move too. The whole crowd rolles ahead almost like a massive Persian rug sloping down steep hill… It’s this lack of invisibility that’s also responsible for the crowd stampeding
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CROWDS AND VIOLENCE Deindividuation: [“Individuation” coined by Jung: a process of individuation for development of personality] Historical Research: Le Bon (1890s) When individuals “descend” in a crowd‚ they become creatures of instinct‚ barbarians (Contagion theory‚ anonymity) Festinger (1952) Individuals who sat in dim light more likely to use bad language when discussing erotic material than individuals who were not. Zimbardo (1969) Stanford Prison Experiments: Individuals dressed
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The epigraph at the beginning of “The Man in the Crowd” brings up the interesting question of what it really means to be alone. While the actual definition of alone is “quite by oneself‚ unaccompanied‚ solitary‚” (“Alone”) the story‚ through the narrator’s thoughts and the observations of the nameless man in the crowd‚ can serve as a different perspective on being alone if applied beyond the situation in the tale. The epigraph says how terrible it is to never be alone‚ and the story serves as a metaphor
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How does "The Man of the Crowd" help us to think about the questions of what it means to read something and what it means when something is unreadable? What are the implications for our understanding of city life? “The Man of the Crowd” helps us understand that people can have secrets without sharking those secrets to anyone else. The narrator desperately tried to figure out who this mysterious old man was. The narrator felt like he was able to “read” everyone‚ he felt like he was able to know
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Face in the Crowd In the mall you sit in the middle of the courtyard. There is a big crowd of people just hanging out‚ or conversing with each other‚ or waiting for transportation. In this courtyard there are some small potted trees and bushes; these plants are beginning to turn brown since the winter is drawing near. As you sit on that stone bench you notice the different cliques of people. There are the high schoolers‚ the “cool kids”‚ the parents and their children‚ and the young couples.
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Theories of Crowd Behavior The Contagion Theory * is defined as the theory stating that members of crowds stimulates each other to higher and higher levels of emotions and irrational behavior. * Contagion often refers to the spread of disease from person to person; accordingly it focuses on the spread of emotion in a crowd. * Formulated by Gustave Le Bon. Herbert Blumer-has offered another version of this theory as it has three stages. * Milling- the first stage; people move around
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SonnyJ. Valentine Faye Goodspeed Writing 100 Hanging out with the wrong crowd can pull a person down like a brick in a lake and leave them feeling cold as ice. It seems like it has some good effects like being popular and having your name known. It can also lead to all sorts of issues like negative attention‚ self-esteem problems‚ and even depression. This problem is relevant to almost everyone in one way or another. The feeling of wanting to be accepted can drive a person to make some foolish
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a cost of $850.00 to build. 3) A team is a group of people who have complementary skills that is committed to a common purpose‚ goal‚ or approach in which they hold each other accountable. While learning and understanding crowdsourcing the word crowd to me does not meet the definition of a team. While in the video the group did seem to be working toward the same goal of providing information to the public of Japan‚ is there accountability for faulty equipment or bad information? This is where the
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With RFID technology this company will begin the construction of total B2B solutions pertaining to the most important domains that involves this company meaning commerce and industry where mobility is very important. With the installation of the RFID system this company’s’ B2B solutions can be conducted in a more precisely manner and with a sufficient amount of time. The RFID system will be very mobile due to the use of multiple PDA devices and RFID readers connected to them in each office location
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