First of all, a human being perceives the group as an invincible power.He pointed out that the main reasons why individuals lose themselves within a group are: In other words, groups have a determining influence on individuals. His basic approach was that human beings collectively develop behaviors that they would never develop individually. Gustave Le Bon is particularly famous for his book The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. On the other hand, if two or more inferior races mixed together, the consequence was a degenerated species. If the superior races mixed with each other, or with one of the inferior races, the results could be good. Of course, he also believed that there were superior and inferior races. Gustave Le Bon was convinced that each race was a separate species. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.” They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. “The masses have never thirsted after truth. Of course, only Europe and the superior race that inhabited it, the Aryans, had the perfect conditions. Basically, he argued that only under certain geographical conditions could men and women become truly intelligent, beautiful, and morally developed. Le Bon believed in geographic determinism.

His main argument for it was the erroneous belief that there are superior races. The Darwinian approach of Gustave Le BonĪ lot of Gustave Le Bon’s work justifies the colonialism of European powers. A series of books emerged from his research and observations, the most famous one being Psychologie des Foules (The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind). Also, he traveled extensively throughout Europe and Africa. He visited many countries in that area of the world. In fact, the French government sent him to the East as an archaeologist. Afterward, he focused on archeology and anthropology. He was a military doctor during the Franco-Prussian War and his first investigations were on physiology. Although he trained to become a doctor, he devoted much of his life to studying sociology, psychology, physics, and anthropology. Gustave Le Bon was born in Nogent-le Rotrou, France, on May 7th, 1841.

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