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Collective Behavior

Chapter 17

Question	Answer
Spontaneous and uncoordinated group action to escape some perceived threat	PANIC
Not even the most ill-treated group with the most just cause will be able to bring about the change withough resource.	RESOURCE-MOBILIZATION THEORY
Organization and effective use of resourc	RESOURCE MOBILIZATION
The relatively spontaneous social behavior that occurs when people try to develop common solutions to unclear situations	COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR
A gathering of people who have limited interaction with one another and do not share clearly defined, conventional norms or sense of group unity	COLLECTIVITY
A temporary gathering of people who are in close enough proximity to interact	CROWD
A collection of people who erupt into generalized destructive behavior	ROIT
When people become fearful, often without reason, about behavior that appears to threaten society's core values	MORAL PANIC
Unfound anxiety shared by people who can be scattered over a wide geographic area	MASS HYSTERIA
enthusiastic attachment amoung large numbers of people for particular styles of appearance or behavior	FASHION
Unconventional object, action, or idea that a large number of people are attached to for a verys hort period of time	FADS
Unverified piece of information that is spread rapidly from one person to another	RUMOR
stories that teach a lesson and seem realistic but are untrue	URBAN LEGENDS
Group of geographically scattered people who are concerned with or engaged in a particular issue	PUBLIC
Collection of differing attitudes that member of a public have about a particulat issue	PUBLIC OPPINION
Organized and deliberate attempt tp shape public opinion, is the most effective way to influence what people think	PROPAGANDA
Hypnotic power of a crowd encourages people to give up their individuality to the stronger pull of the group.	CONTAGION THEORY
The people in the crowd are often faced with a situation in which traditional norms of behavior do not apply	EMERGENT-NORM THEORY
Sociologist Neil Smelser attempted to predict of collective behavior would occur and the direction it might take	VALUE-ADDED THEORY
Long term conscious effort to promote or prevent social change	SOCIAL MOVEMENT
Protect what they see as societys preailing values from change that they consider to be a threat to those values	CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT
to improve or revise, some part of society through social change	REVISIONARY MOVEMENT
Total and radical chnage of the existing social structure.	REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT
people joining social movements b/c they feel deprived relative ot other people or groups with whom they identify	RELATIVE DEPREVATION THEORY

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