Climate, chaos and collective behaviour : a rising fickleness / / Jaap van Ginneken

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910635384303321
• Autore: Van Ginneken Jaap
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer International Publishing, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 9783031152375; 9783031152368
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 pages)
• Collana: Frontiers of Globalization
• Disciplina: 363.73874
• Soggetti: Climatic changes - Social aspects; Collective behavior
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Praise for Collective Behavior and Public Opinion -- Contents -- About the Author -- Introduction: A New Vision -- Climate Change and New Pandemics -- Mass Psychology and Collective Behavior Sociology -- Part I: Mind Quakes -- 1: Public Opinion as a Complex Adaptive System (CAS) -- 1 Case # One: A Scandi Icon and the 'Greta' Effect -- 2 The Phenomenon of Public Opinion -- Public Opinion and Opinion Polls -- The Rise and Fall of Issues -- Emotional Coloring of Issues -- 3 The Meta-principle of Complex Mutation -- Newton's Apple and Lorenz's Butterfly -- The Holy Faith in CAS -- Regularity and Uncertainty -- 2: The Continuous Mutation of Informal Messages -- 1 Case # Two: Covid Rumors in Belgium and Elsewhere -- 2 The Phenomenon of Hearsay -- Gossip and Rumor -- Folklore and Legends -- Worldview and Group Formation -- 3 The Meta-principle of Continuous Mutation -- Transmission -- Diffusion -- Contagion -- Mutation -- A New Notion: Memes -- 3: Circular Reaction in Media Hypes -- 1 Case # Three: Hollywood Takes on Melting Ice and Rising Water -- 2 The Phenomenon of Media Hypes -- The Creation of the World in the News -- The Evolution of Media Hypes -- Media Hypes and the Status Quo -- 3 The Meta-Principle of Circular Reaction -- Self-Reinforcing Processes -- Self-Fulfilling Prophecies -- Cybernetics and Feedback -- Amplification and Circular Reaction -- ; Part II: Emerging Collective Behavior -- 4: The Formation of Synergy in Crowds -- 1 Case # Four: The Curfew Riots in the Netherlands -- 2 The Phenomenon of Psychological Crowds -- The Psychology of Crowds and Masses -- Deindividuation Theory -- The Convergence Approach -- 3 The Meta-Principle of Synergy Formation -- Movement and Convergence -- Fluctuation and Synchronization -- Rhythm and Resonance -- Synergy and Boosting.; 5: The Emergence of Patterns in Opinion Currents -- 1 Case # Five: Cambridge Analytica and the Surge in Anglo-american Isolationism -- 2 The Phenomenon of Opinion Currents -- The Sociology of Collective Behavior -- The "Natural History" of Opinion Currents -- Early Systems Theory -- 3 The Meta-principle of Emerging Patterns -- A Digression on Emerging Patterns in Nature -- Emergent Patterns in the Human Psyche -- Emergent Patterns in Social Exchange -- 6: The Self-Organization of Social Movements -- 1 Case # Six: XR: A British Social Movement -- The XR Scientists' EPE Report -- 2 The Phenomenon of Social Movements -- Social Movements as Emergent Self-Organization -- Role Differentiation and Self-Organization -- Emerging Self-Organization and Established Organization -- 3 The Meta-Principle of Self-Organization -- A Digression on the Self-Organization of Organisms -- The Self-Organization of Groups of Organisms -- The Self-Organization of Groups of People -- Part III: Shifting Public Moods -- 7: The Evolving Context of Fashion and Fads -- 1 Case # Seven: From Fur to Fake -- 2 The Phenomenon of Fashion and Fads -- Fashion: The Joys of Expressing Oneself -- Fads, Manias, Crazes: The Joy of New Impressions -- 3 The Meta-principle of Evolving Contexts -- Nested Contexts -- An Excursion on Irreversible Time -- Regimes of Experience -- 8: Critical Thresholds in Fear and Panic -- 1 Case # Eight: The Fear of Contagion from the East -- 2 The Phenomenon Of Fear And Panic -- Panic After Disasters -- Panic After Phony Disasters -- Product Risks and Risk Perceptions -- Distortions and Shifts -- 3 The Meta-Principle Of Critical Thresholds -- An Excursion About Dominoes and Thresholds -- The Sandpile Model -- Contiguity and Critical Mass -- 9: Possible Attractors, in Outrage and Protest.; 1 Case # Nine: The French Popular Protests Against the Elite Environment (The 'Yellow Vests') -- 2 The Phenomenon of Outrage and Protest -- Collective Expression of Hostility -- Moral Panic -- Political Scandal -- Economic Boycott -- Shifts -- 3 The Meta-Principle of Possible Attractors -- An Excursion into Abstract Space -- Psychosocial Attractors -- Part IV: Conclusions -- 10: Phase Transitions in Crazes and Crashes -- 1 Case # Ten: Bulls and Bears on Stock Exchanges -- 2 The Phenomenon of Crazes and Crashes -- Greedy Masses -- Speculative Bubbles and Bursts -- Value Paper, Bears and Bulls -- Shifts and Gestalt Switches -- 3 The Meta-principle of Phase Transitions -- A Digression on Phases, Transitions, and Hypnons -- The Congestion Phase and the Braess Paradox -- Back to Animal Behavior and Swarms -- Mass and Collective Behavior as a Phase Transition -- 11: Prediction, Planning, and Fundamental Uncertainty -- 1 Case # Eleven: Nuclear Plants as a Supposed Panacea (Fukushima) -- 2 The Phenomenon of Forecasting -- Back to Yesterday's Technological Future -- Back to Yesterday's Economic Future -- Back to Yesterday's Social Future -- Yesterday's Predictions and Unpredictability -- 3 The Ultimate Meta-principle: Fundamental Uncertainty -- Infinite Detail, Fractals, and Immeasurability -- Unstable Equilibrium, Bifurcations, and Unpredictability -- Chance, Contingency, and Uncontrollability -- 12: Summary: Issues Management? -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.