MOB MENTALITY ENG 9 MOB MENTALITY When does

MOB MENTALITY ENG. 9

MOB MENTALITY • When does a crowd become a mob? • What changes? • Do you know any specific examples?

BREAKING DOWN THE DEFINITION • Mob: a group of persons stimulating one another to excitement and losing ordinary rational control over their activity. • Mentality: way of thinking of a person or group. • So what is mob mentality?

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MOB MENTALITY AND VIOLENCE BY DR. WENDY JAMES, PHD. One dog may bark at you but it’s more likely that a pack will attack you. We are not exempt from that behavior because we are human and not canine. As evidenced by dogs operating in a pack environment, human society is based on group dynamics. As humans, we have instinctual responses that are exacerbated by group influences. What we might not do as individuals we may do as part of a group. People may lose control of their usual inhibitions, as their mentality becomes that of the group.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MOB MENTALITY AND VIOLENCE BY DR. WENDY JAMES, PHD. A mob mentality phenomenon has occurred throughout human history, whether witch burning, religious zealotry, political protests or reaction to perceived racial micro aggressions.

HISTORICAL EXAMPLES • Salem Witch Trials • The Holocaust • The Red Scare

SOUTHERN LYNCH MOBS

DETROIT RIOTS (1967)

FERGUSON

BLACK FRIDAY

WHY DO MOBS EXIST? • • Fear Anonymity Tension (race, class, gender) Change Unemployment Being a part of something Restlessness These factors are regardless of location, culture, and class

CHAPTER 15 QUESTIONS 1. How did this chapter illustrate Atticus’s advice to Scout to “climb in someone else’s skin and walk around in it”? 2. How did this chapter illustrate Atticus’s definition of “courage” in Chapter 11? 3. How is the motif of the mad dog revisited in this chapter?