The Psychology Of Social Movements
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What drives ordinary men and women to abandon the predictable rhythms of daily life and surrender themselves to the consuming force of a mass movement? The Psychology of Social Movements, first published in 1941, presents Hadley Cantril's landmark psychological investigation into the nature of collective behaviour, examining the inner forces that compel individuals to join movements ranging from religious revivals and lynching mobs to the rise of fascism and the appeal of Nazism. Cantril argues that individuals seek out movements when their personal identities feel inadequate or threatened, finding in collective action a sense of purpose, belonging, and transcendence that their ordinary lives fail to provide. Cantril's methodology is both rigorous and far-reaching, drawing on empirical psychology, sociology, and political theory to construct a unified framework for understanding why people think and act as they do within the context of group fanaticism. His analysis remains strikingly relevant, illuminating the psychological roots of extremism and populism with a clarity that anticipates many of the political upheavals of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Written with a commanding authority, this work stands as a foundational text in social psychology — and its central question, why rational individuals abandon reason for the certainty of a movement, remains as urgent and unanswered as ever.
Author: Hadley Cantril
Format: Paperback
Genre: Psychology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What drives ordinary men and women to abandon the predictable rhythms of daily life and surrender themselves to the consuming force of a mass movement? The Psychology of Social Movements, first published in 1941, presents Hadley Cantril's landmark psychological investigation into the nature of collective behaviour, examining the inner forces that compel individuals to join movements ranging from religious revivals and lynching mobs to the rise of fascism and the appeal of Nazism. Cantril argues that individuals seek out movements when their personal identities feel inadequate or threatened, finding in collective action a sense of purpose, belonging, and transcendence that their ordinary lives fail to provide. Cantril's methodology is both rigorous and far-reaching, drawing on empirical psychology, sociology, and political theory to construct a unified framework for understanding why people think and act as they do within the context of group fanaticism. His analysis remains strikingly relevant, illuminating the psychological roots of extremism and populism with a clarity that anticipates many of the political upheavals of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Written with a commanding authority, this work stands as a foundational text in social psychology — and its central question, why rational individuals abandon reason for the certainty of a movement, remains as urgent and unanswered as ever.