✦ LIBER ✦
Life experience and the value-free foundations of Blumer's collective behavior theory
✍ Scribed by David Keys; R. J. Maratea
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 74 KB
- Volume
- 47
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5061
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Herbert Blumer stated throughout his long career that his ideas regarding collective behavior originated with his introduction to pragmatist philosophy under the auspices of G. H. Mead at the University of Chicago. Blumer's biography, however, presents a different picture. Firsthand experiences with mob behavior, collective outrage, and the fallout associated with Blumer's public utterances early in his career may have had significant impact on the eventual corpus of collective behavior. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.