THE СROWD AS A SPECIFIC CONFLICT-GENEOUS FACTOR OF FINANCIAL AND BANKING SECTOR
The article is devoted to the topical issues of the development of the crowd as a sociopsychological phenomenon and an object of sociological research. Special attention is given to the manifestation and action of the crowd in the financial-economic sphere, when members of the crowd are specific socio-role-playing groups: depositors, savers, borrowers, deceived by banking organizations and forced on their own to act in defense of their downtrodden right to the preservation of the property entrusted to the Bank, and in fact lost through the fault of the latter. The author analyzes the crowd as a historical socio-psychological phenomenon, considering the classification of the crowd, its pressure and political force, characteristic features of the power of the mob rule, the mechanism of the impact of leadership in the crowd; gives a generalized «portrait»of the Russian mob, created by the financial and banking crises.