This article inquires into the crowd-specific interaction among the participants in an urban riot episode.
Crowd-specific interaction has so far received relatively little attention in the studies of the collective behavior. This is partly because we tend to simply regard the crowd behavior episode as irrational, emotional or violent. The participants there have been assumed to be of marginal existence whose behavior is far from institutional.
But when we look carefully into what is going on among the so-called crowd, it may be found that there is sufficient evidence of various levels of interactions among the individuals and/or groups. And examination of these interactions will enable us to find that the crowd behavior has in itself some feature of order and norm.
The purpose of this article is twofold: (1) to investigate the crowd-specific interaction during the first riot which took place in 1961 at "Kamagasaki" in Osaka,one of the districts densely populated of daily wage earners in Japan; and (2) to reveal certain continuity between the crowd behavior episode and everyday lifeworld of each participant group. In so doing,the focal point of analysis lies in the subjective world of the crowd participant groups. They ordinarily attatched conflicting meanings to each other even to themselves, meanings which were structured as a whole an "everyday lifeworld of Kamagasaki".
It is concluded that the crowd behaviors were to a great extent based on their ordinary subjective world, and therefore this world guided and regulated their seemingly "irrational" behavior during the riot. And lastly this article would like also to point out that the crowd behavior might be rather "dramaturgical" in its nature.
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