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Chapter 17

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