The Not-So-Lonely Crowd: Friendship Groups in Collective Behavior Export

@article{Aveni77, abstract = {The existing approaches to the study of crowds tend to focus attention on the individual level of behavior and to neglect group-level behavior. Data collected on persons celebrating a football victory indicate that the majority of participants were with one or more friends; that is, they were in groups. These data provide a basis for suggesting that group-level phenomena be given greater prominence in the conceptualization of crowd behavior.}, author = {Aveni, Adrian F.}, citeulike-article-id = {2984707}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3033551}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/3033551}, doi = {10.2307/3033551}, journal = {Sociometry}, keywords = {crowd, experiment, group-dynamics}, number = {1}, pages = {96--99}, posted-at = {2009-08-26 16:04:25}, priority = {2}, publisher = {American Sociological Association}, title = {The Not-So-Lonely Crowd: Friendship Groups in Collective Behavior}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3033551}, volume = {40}, year = {1977} }

TY - JOUR ID - Aveni77 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2984707 N2 - The existing approaches to the study of crowds tend to focus attention on the individual level of behavior and to neglect group-level behavior. Data collected on persons celebrating a football victory indicate that the majority of participants were with one or more friends; that is, they were in groups. These data provide a basis for suggesting that group-level phenomena be given greater prominence in the conceptualization of crowd behavior. IS - 1 JF - Sociometry EP - 99 TI - The Not-So-Lonely Crowd: Friendship Groups in Collective Behavior PB - American Sociological Association VL - 40 SP - 96 KW - crowd KW - experiment KW - group-dynamics AU - Aveni, Adrian PY - 1977/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3033551 ER -