Question

How did Cikara’s experience in the baseball game inform her understanding of mob [RI.3] mentality?

a) Cikara realized that a few factors, such as being a woman, will save a person from the negative consequences of mob mentality.
b) Cikara was harassed by Yankees fans for her husband’s Rex Sox cap and learned that by removing the visual difference cue (i.e. the cap) she could effectively use the mob mentality.
c) Cikara discovered that passive resistance was the only way to take power from the mob mentality.
d) Cikara experienced the “us versus them” part of mob mentality, eliciting a strong reaction despite the minor point of con ict (i.e. a baseball cap).

Answer 1

The correct answer is

b) Cikara was harassed by Yankees fans for her husband’s Rex Sox cap and learned that by removing the visual difference cue (i.e. the cap) she could effectively use the mob mentality.

Step-by-step explanation:

• Cikara was a a sociologist from Carnegie Mellon University,who dedicated her life in studying the phenomena of mass communications.

• She became captivated with the reality of crowd mentality after seeing how Yankees game was played with her husband at their home stadium.

• Cikara was harassed by Yankees fans for her husband’s Rex Sox cap and learned that by removing the visual difference cue (i.e. the cap) she could effectively use the mob mentality

• Cikara and her husband both left the ball field because of taunts and insults from the fans, but when they were on the way home, she couldn’t understand but wonder why were they both were ridiculed