conventional crowd

Definition of Conventional Crowd

(noun) People congregating for a scheduled event.

Examples of Conventional Crowd

• Audience at a concert
• Spectators at a sporting event
• Students attending a lecture

Conventional Crowd Pronunciation

Pronunciation Usage Guide

Syllabification: con·ven·tion·al crowd

Audio Pronunciation

International Phonetic Alphabet

• American English – /kənˈvɛnʃənəl kraʊd/
• British English – /kənˈvɛnʃənl kraʊd/

Usage Notes

• Plural: conventional crowds
  
• Conventional crowd is a type of crowd that sociology studies as a form of collective behavior. Other types of crowd include acting crowd, casual crowd, and expressive crowd.

Additional Information

• Word origin of “conventional” and “crowd” – Online Etymology Dictionary: etymonline.com
• Borch, Christian. 2012. The Politics of Crowds: An Alternative History of Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Collins, Randall. 2008. Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Drury, John, and Clifford John T. Stott, eds. 2013. Crowds in the 21st century: Perspectives from Contemporary Social Science. London: Routledge.
• Easley, David, and Jon Kleinberg. 2010. Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Hughes, Helen MacGill. 1972. Crowd and Mass Behavior. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
• Sandine, Al. 2009. The Taming of the American Crowd: From Stamp Riots to Shopping Sprees. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Related Terms

• acting crowd
• aggregate
• assembling perspective
• casual crowd
• collective behavior
• crowd
• expressive crowd
• group
• people

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Cite the Definition of Conventional Crowd

ASA – American Sociological Association (5th edition)

Bell, Kenton, ed. 2013. “conventional crowd.” In Open Education Sociology Dictionary. Retrieved October 3, 2023 (https://sociologydictionary.org/conventional-crowd/).

APA – American Psychological Association (6th edition)

conventional crowd. (2013). In K. Bell (Ed.), Open education sociology dictionary. Retrieved from https://sociologydictionary.org/conventional-crowd/

Chicago/Turabian: Author-Date – Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition)

Bell, Kenton, ed. 2013. “conventional crowd.” In Open Education Sociology Dictionary. Accessed October 3, 2023. https://sociologydictionary.org/conventional-crowd/.

MLA – Modern Language Association (7th edition)

“conventional crowd.” Open Education Sociology Dictionary. Ed. Kenton Bell. 2013. Web. 3 Oct. 2023. <https://sociologydictionary.org/conventional-crowd/>.