Path to collective madness : a study in social order and political pathology / / Dipak K. Gupta

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828018803321
• Autore: Gupta Dipak K
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Westport, CT, USA, : Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated, 2001; Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
• ISBN: 0-313-07443-7; 0-313-00125-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.4
• Soggetti: Group identity; Identity (Psychology); Collective behavior; Social conflict; PSYCHOLOGY; Social Psychology; Social Change; Sociology & Social History; Social Sciences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- PATH TO COLLECTIVE MADNESS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- THE AUDIENCE -- PLAN OF THE BOOK -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I SETTING THE STAGE -- CHAPTER 1 "THE CHILDREN DID NOT CRY": THE FACE OF COLLECTIVE MADNESS -- THE AFFLICTION: A FEW SNAPSHOTS -- THE THIN LINE OF SANITY -- COLLECTIVE MADNESS AND ORGANIZED ANARCHY -- ME, US, THEM, AND YOU -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2 AT THE GREAT DIVIDE OF IDENTITY: INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE -- THE GREAT DIVIDE -- IN THE WOMB OF THE COLLECTIVE -- INDIVIDUAL: THE DELIVERANCE -- ROMANCING THE COLLECTIVE -- SINGULAR WORLDVIEW: THE CONFUSION -- … IN WOMEN, SAVAGES, AND CHILDREN -- THE WAR OF THE WORLDS: INDIVIDUAL VS. COLLECTIVE -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3 THE CONFUSIONS ; OF A SINGULAR WORLDVIEW -- THE PUZZLE -- SOCIAL DILEMMA: OLSON'S PARADOX -- DISREGARDING THE DILEMMA -- THE PARTIAL SOLUTIONS -- REALITY AT RISK: A THEORIST'S CONUNDRUM -- FINDING FAULT WITH HOMO ECONOMICUS -- SOLACE IN SELF-INTEREST -- THE ONE-DIMENSIONAL ACTOR: THE WOES OF AN INCOMPLETE BEING -- NOTES -- PART II PATH TO COLLECTIVE MADNESS -- CHAPTER 4 HOMO COLLECTIVUS: THE SOCIAL MAN -- RECONSTRUCTING THE FUNDAMENTALS -- PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: THE NEED TO BELONG AND TO HATE -- IN THE LOVE OF HATE: COMMUNITY AND THE SHARED ENEMY -- TWO FACES OF COLLECTIVE IDENTITY -- COLLECTIVE: THE CONTEXTUAL IDENTITY -- ACCOUNTING FOR THE SOCIAL MAN: A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE -- IDEOLOGY AND SELF-INTEREST: WHY MEN REBEL AND WHY THEY DON'T -- MANUFACTURING COLLECTIVE IDENTITY -- CAN COLLECTIVE IDENTITY BE MEASURED? -- COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN CONTEXT -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5 THE SLIPPERY SLOPE: FROM IDENTITY TO MADNESS -- THE MAKING OF AN ENEMY -- Fitting the Image -- The Political Entrepreneurs -- THE PARTICIPANTS -- The True Believers -- The Mercenaries: The Seekers of Fun and Profit -- Captive Participants -- THE NONPARTICIPANTS -- The Conscientious Objectors -- The Easy Riders.; The Collaborators -- FROM IDENTIFICATION TO IMPLEMENTATION: THE PROCESS -- Mobilization -- The Media: Constructing Political Reality -- Cultural Icons -- Ease of Participation and Costs of Defection -- STRATEGIES OF PARTICIPATION -- THE DESCENT OF SOCIETY: PATH TO COLLECTIVE INSANITY -- Greed (selfish interest) -- Ideology (collective motivation) -- Cost factor -- Facilitating factors -- Shrinking Opportunity -- Increasing Rewards of Membership -- Collective Culture -- Ideology of Paranoia -- The Rise of a Charismatic Leader -- Social Pressure for Acceptance -- High Price for Defection -- Social Acceptance of Violence -- Creation of Militia/Flow of Arms -- Creation of Organizational Hierarchy -- Stopped Flow of Information -- International Intervention -- CASCADING TOWARD MADNESS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 6 MADNESS OR NOT: THE ENDS OFTHE SPECTRUM -- FOR REASONS OF INSANITY -- RWANDA: THE CHRONICLE OF MADNESS -- Early Rwanda: Restructuring Ethnicity -- The Fruits of Folly: Independence of Rwanda -- The Best of Times and the Worst of Times: Setting the Stage -- The Arusha Agreement: The Last Flicker of Light -- Message of Extreme Hate: The Media -- The Bush Clearing: The Face of Madness -- Von Götzen's Curse: Why Rwanda? -- JONESTOWN: THE TEMPLE OF DOOM -- The Massacre -- Politics American Style: Paranoia -- Why Jonestown? -- THE AFRICAN AMERICANS: WHERE IS THE REVOLUTION? -- The Summer of Discontent -- The Shape of the Paradox -- Solving the Paradox: The Case for the Weakening of Collective Identity -- The "Us" Factors -- The "Them" Factors -- Government Coercion: The Rising Cost Factor -- Where Is the Revolution? -- THE LESSONS OF HISTORY -- NOTES -- PART III IN SEARCH OF POLICY -- CHAPTER 7 WHERE THERE'S A WILL … : CAN ANYTHING BE DONE? -- A MATTER OF WILL? -- STRUCTURAL CHANGE: PROCEDURAL JUSTICE -- Power-Sharing.; Peace Through Coercion: Benevolent Dictatorship -- Can Democracy Save the World? -- STRATEGIC MOVES: SHORT-TERM SOLUTIONS -- Early Warning -- FROM EARLY WARNING TO EARLY ACTION -- Preventive Diplomacy -- Why Conflicts Continue -- WHERE THERE'S A WILL … -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 8 COLLECTIVE MADNESS: LOOKING INTOTHE FUTURE -- COLLECTIVE MADNESS -- COLLECTIVE IDENTITY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH -- DESTINY INSANITY? -- REIGN OF THE INDIVIDUAL: THE JUGGERNAUT -- In a World Without Enemies: Giddy Globalization -- The Incoherent Society -- DISTANT THUNDER: ; THE RISE OF COLLECTIVISM -- THE GOLDILOCKS SOLUTION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- About the Author.