Would someone just quickly check my plan for group displays?
Introduction: Quickly define group displays
Sports events are competitive and often display aggression through words and gestures, but why does it occur in crowds?
Social Learning theory: Players are role models/ apspirational and crowds imitate this. Such aggression is seen in NIRS study where they found link between aggression and US football matches.
Evalution: Correlational study so no cause and effect, also it's culture bound to the US which is a country that encourages competitiveness. Also Marsh et al found contact aggression was not the norm and in reports from Strathclyde found after a match between the celtics and rangers there was only five arrests out of 500,000, which was only a 1% increase from non football match days.
Overall the findings are mixed and we can't say for sure why aggression occurs at football matches. Although Marsh suggests that it's a concept that is sensationalised by the media.
Lynch Mobs: Collective group who usually target and kill an individual, paticularly prominent in the US and other countries.
Two explanations based on the lynchings in the US
Sociological power threat: When minority increases so does the amount of lynchings as they are seen as an increasing threat.
Or the self attention theory where the amount of lynchings increases with the increase in mob members.
Leader found support for the self attention theory based on analysing US newspaper reports and photographic evidence. this theory could also be explained by deindividuation and the dehumanising of black african americans.
However Leightweis Goff claims this doesn't explain the blood thirsty nature of lynch mobs.
Conclusion: The evidence suggesting football crowds have are usually no contact contrasts with lynch mobs and suggests that there are different motives that draw crowds together, which may or may not result in aggression. It's also important to note that not all crowds participate in aggression so there must be a variety of factors that influence the outcome of aggression.
Anything else I can add?
I also have a psychodynamic perspective for lynch mobs but I dunno whether I'd fit it in!