Author Question: What are Blumer's five stages of an acting crowd? What will be an ideal ... (Read 78 times)

tfester · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

What are Blumer's five stages of an acting crowd?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Was the United States the first democracy? Or had other countries or peoples taken the same path?

What will be an ideal response?

morrie123456 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 2, 2018

Answer to Question 1

In 1939, Blumer identified five stages of an acting crowd, an excited group that moves toward a goal.His model is still used today in police manuals on crowd behavior. The stages are (1) a background of tension or unrest, (2) an exciting event, (3) a milling behavior, (4) a common object of attention, and (5) common impulses.

Answer to Question 2

No. Democracy was practiced in the city-state of Athens, in Greece, 2,500 years ago.Other groups that practiced democracy before the United States include some Native American tribes, such as the Iroquois. These groups were fairly small groups, however.The United States was the first larger group to practice democracy.