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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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