Crowd behavior is one of the most colorful but least understood
forms of human social behavior. This volume is a major contribution
to the field of collective behavior, with implications for social
movement analysis. McPhail's critical assessment of the major
theories of crowd behavior establishes that, whatever their
particular limitations and strengths, all share a general and
serious flaw: their explanations were developed without prior
examination of the behaviors to be explained. Drawing on a wide
range of empirical studies that include his own careful field work,
the author offers a new characterization of temporary gatherings.
He presents a life cycle of gatherings and a taxonomy of forms of
collective behavior within gatherings, as well as combinations of
these forms and gatherings into larger events, campaigns and waves.
McPhail also develops a new explanation for various ways in which
purposive actors construct collective actions.
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