a specific social group; a structureless accumulation of people who are deprived of a clearly perceived commonality of goals, but are interconnected by the similarity of their emotional state and a common object of attention; a special psychological community that has its own special patterns of formation, interaction and behavior; communication between people in a crowd is characterized by a greater expression of non-verbal methods of communication than verbal ones; a contact, outwardly unorganized community, characterized by a high degree of conformism of its constituent individuals, acting extremely emotionally and unanimously