The experience of collective participation: shared identity, relatedness and emotionality

Fergus Gilmour Neville; Stephen David Reicher

The experience of collective participation: shared identity, relatedness and emotionality

Fergus Gilmour Neville, Stephen David Reicher

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This paper presents three studies that explore the experience of participating in crowd events. Analysis of semi-structured interviews with football supporters and student demonstrators is used to illustrate the role that shared identity plays in transforming within-crowd social relations (relatedness), and the positive impact this has upon emotionality of collective experience. Questionnaire data collected at a music festival are then used to confirm these claims. The paper argues for a conceptual distinction between shared identity and self-categorisation, and against the contention in classic crowd psychology that a loss of identity is at the root of collective emotion. It concludes by suggesting avenues for future research, including the potential role for collective experience in encouraging future co-action.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Crowds in the 21st Century
Subtitle of host publication	Perspectives from contemporary social science
Editors	John Drury, Clifford Stott
Publisher	Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Pages	113-132
ISBN (Print)	978041635905
Publication status	Published - 15 Feb 2013

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Name	Contemporary Issues in Social Science
Publisher	Routledge

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The experience of collective participation: shared identity, relatedness and emotionality. / Neville, Fergus Gilmour ; Reicher, Stephen David.
Crowds in the 21st Century: Perspectives from contemporary social science. ed. / John Drury; Clifford Stott. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2013. p. 113-132 (Contemporary Issues in Social Science).

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