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- Title
SOME EMPIRICAL PATTERNS IN A RIOT PROCESS.
- Authors
Stark, Margaret J. Abudu; Raine, Walter J.; Burbeck, Stephen L.; Davison, Keith K.
- Abstract
This study focuses on riot process. Detailed temporal and spatial data on over 1,850 instances of crowd action recorded during the Los Angeles riot are categorized, quantified - analyzed. Data are generated using an adaptation of team reporting, in which a number of segments, a pieces of behavioral action, are combined to increase the amount of Information available a complex event. Common crowd characterizations and dot classificatory and conceptual schemes using monolithic concepts (generalized belief," "the foray for pillage," "the rampage," "the Roman holiday," and "the siege") fare poorly under the scrutiny of a large-scale empirical inquiry. The emerging patterns Indicate the need for studies width approach collective violence as a complex, diverse, dynamic and interactive behavioral process.
- Subjects
RIOTS; FREEDOM of assembly; COLLECTIVE behavior; POLITICAL violence; SOCIAL action; SOCIAL psychology
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1974, Vol 39, Issue 6, p865
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2094159