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GUTIERREZ BRITO, Jesús. Spectacular and mass behavior: The problem of authorship (external). Rev. Mex. Sociol [online]. 2012, vol.74, n.1, pp.41-68. ISSN 2594-0651.

This article discusses the problem of the political and social authorship in the collective spontaneous behaviors, and the facul-ty that the crowds and/or multitudes have to perform on own initiative responsibly and without influence or external manipulation. The current analysis approaches the formal problems than entails to the fact to assume this type of collective behaviors, but also some difficulties related with the explanation of theimitation and his auto-reflexive potential. The end purpose of this analysis leads to present espectacularidad"s concept like instrument to redefine and to advance new solutions to the problem of the disavowal in these social formations once historically were regarded as irrationalists and/or instinctive.

Palavras-chave : mass behaviour; mass mobility; social control; collective consciousness; entertainments; spectators.