Le Bon's 1908 Theory on Crowd Behaviour Has Influenced Modern

question 26

Multiple Choice

Le Bon's 1908 theory on crowd behaviour has influenced modern theories because he argued that:

• A) only despotic leaders use crowds for their own purposes.
• B) crowd behaviour has pathological and abnormal elements.
• C) the more people in the crowd, the more primitive they become.
• D) crowds trigger pre-modern behaviours.

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