《乌合之众·第三编·不同群体的分类与描述·群体的分类》第5节
The CASTE represents the highest degree of organisation of which the crowd is susceptible. While the sect includes individuals of very different professions, degrees of education and social surrounding, who are only linked together by the beliefs they hold in common, the caste is composed of individuals of the same profession, and in consequence similarly educated and of much the same social status. Examples in point are the military and priestly castes. The CLASS is formed of individuals of diverse origin, linked together not by a community of beliefs, as are the members of a sect, or by common professional occupations, as are the members of a caste, but by certain interests and certain habits of life and education almost identical. The middle class and the agricultural class are examples. Being only concerned in this work with heterogeneous crowds, and reserving the study of homogeneous crowds (sects, castes, and classes) for another volume, I shall not insist here on the characteristics of crowds of this latter kind. I shall conclude this study of heterogeneous crowds by the examination of a few typical and distinct categories of crowds.
注释摘要
勒庞在这一段里对同质性群体做了三层细分，旨在建立一个从松散到紧密的组织程度序列。他把教派放在最底层，因为教派成员尽管教育、职业和社会出身各异，仅靠共同的信仰纽带联结。种姓则被他视为群体所能达到的最高组织形态，其成员从事同一职业，因而拥有相似的教育背景和社会地位，军事种姓和教士种姓是他给出的典型例子。阶级介于二者之间，由出身各异但利益、生活习惯与教育程度几乎…