with the chant. In Tough's article the contagion theory is shown when everyone starts moshing. When the band came on, everyone started moving toward the stage, most likely one person recognized the band was coming on and everyone else caught on and gathered closer to the stage to begin to mosh. The second part of Snyder and Spreitzer's theory is called the "Convergence Theory of Collective Violence." This tells us that although the Contagion Theory of Collective Violence is correct, it does not fully explain why some fans at a game become infected and some do not. The Convergence Theory suggests that only a small group of people (that does not represent the entire crowd) are drawn together by common qualities. The example that Snyder and Spreitzer use is a high school athletic contest. Teenagers, angry, and possibly drunk, attend their high school's sporting events: they have some of the same traits, such as age and sex. These traits are part of what can cause a person to become violent if someone in their age group is doing the same thing.In the mosh pit everyone is probably in his late teens to his mid twenties, most are male. Each man in the mosh pit may have a short temper and they can possibly be drunk. In Tough's article he is at the Roseland Ballroom. When the band takes the stage only the brave are moshing. Everyone else is probably gathered outside the pit, dancing, talking or having a drink, but they aren't banging heads. The moshers only represent part of the crowd, now everyone else that is at the Roseland Ballroom.The final part of Snyder and Spreitzer's theory is the Emergent Theory of Collective Violence. It suggests that the crowd does not act as one, in general, but the crowd acts on norms or standards that are implied and usually followed to an extent. Some norms generally found in mosh pits are the rules that no one brings a weapon in and uses it. There are other norms that can vary from one mosh pit to...
