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
Syllabification: con·ven·tion·al crowd
Audio Pronunciation
Phonetic Spelling
- American English – /kuhn-vEn-shuhn-l krOUd/
- British English – /kuhn-vEn-shuh-nuhl krOUd/
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/>.