Crowd

"[1] In human sociology, the term "mobbed" simply means "extremely crowded", as in a busy mall or shop.

Social aspects are concerned with the formation, management and control of crowds, both from the point of view of individuals and groups.

According to Gustave Le Bon, an individual partaking in a crowd adopts certain characteristics such as a decreased ability to think consciously, a predominance of unconscious motives, succumbing easily to suggestion or contagion of feelings and ideas in a similar direction, and tend towards immediately bringing suggestions to action.

[2] In his view, most crowds are impulsive, irritable, incapable of reasoning, lack judgement and are fueled by an exaggeration of sentiments.

For example, in the beginning of the socialist movement crowds were asked to put on their Sunday dress and march silently down the street.

Berlonghi classified crowds as spectator, demonstrator, or escaping, to correlate to the purpose for gathering.

Lastly, there are acting crowds that join to achieve a common goal or action, which could involve participating in a protest or riot.

[12][13][14] Acquisitive mobs occur when large numbers of people are fighting for limited resources.

[5] Studies have shown that human crowds move in ways that resemble fluid,[15][16] and can be modeled by such methods as particle simulation and statistical physics.