POLITIKAI NAGYGYŰLÉSEK MINT INTERAKCIÓS RITUÁLÉK
POLITICAL MASS RALLIES AS RITUALS OF INTERACTION

Summary/Abstract: Rallies play an important role in strengthening or weakening political communities and movements. The crowd present at a street event has autonomy in its activities and emotional or cognitive reactions. The autonomy may surprise, even shock the politicians and organizers who tend to instrumentalize rallies, emotions as well as the crowds themselves. The paper is based on a fi eld research close to ethnography carried out at the rallies of the three most important political forces of Hungary: Fidesz-KDNP, Jobbik and the grouping of leftist parties on the same day, the 23rd of October 2013. Using psychodyna mics and micro-sociology the approach is able to explain why the leader of the biggest leftist party was hindered to start his speech for surprisingly long at a leftist rally.

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