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WarmUp: Journal Entry
Respond to the following scenario in your journals. Please be detailed in your response.You are sitting in a movie theater watching a film & the film breaks. How does the audience respond? Why do they respond that way?
Collective Behavior &Social Movements
Chapter 17.1
ObjectivesContrast the various types of collectivities & analyze the explanations for collective behavior that have been proposed.
Identify the preconditions necessary for collective behavior to occur & explain how they build on one another.
Collective Behaviorthe relatively spontaneous social behavior that occurs when people try to develop common solutions to unclear situations
Characteristics of Collectiveslimited interactionunclear normslimited unitygroup that share these characteristics
known as a collectivity
Types of Collective BehaviorCrowds MobsRiots PanicsMass Hysteria FashionsFads RumorsUrban Legends Public Opinion
Crowdstemporary gathering of people who are in close enough proximity to interact
Mobsan emotionally charged collectivity
whose members are united by a specific destructive or violent goal
Riotscollection of people who erupt into
generalized destructive behavior, resulting in social disorder
less unified & focused than mobsLondon Graffiti Riot
Panicsspontaneous & uncoordinated group action to escape some perceived threat
Mass Hysteriaunfounded anxiety shared by people who can be scattered over a large geographic area
Fashionsenthusiastic attachments among large numbers of people for particular styles of appearance or behavior
Fadsan unconventional object, action,
or idea that a large number of people are attached to for a very short period of time
Rumorsunverified pieces of information that spread rapidly from one person to another
Urban Legendsstories that teach a lesson & seem realistic but are untrue
Urban Legends Decoded: The Hook
Public Opinioncollection of different attitudes that members of the public have about a particular issue
Explaining Collective Behavior
Contagion TheoryEmergent-Norm Theory
Value-Added Theory
Contagion Theorydeveloped by Gustave LeBon1st systematic theory of collective
behavior3 factors give crowds power over
individualsnumbers create anonymity of individual members
spread of emotion like epidemicmembers rapidly enter state of suggestibility
Emergent-Norm Theorydeveloped by Ralph Turner & Lewis Killianpeople in a crowd often faced with a
situation in which traditional norms do not applyno clear standards of behaviornew norms gradually emerge
Value-Added Theoryproposed by Neil Smelserattempted to predict if collective
behavior would occur & the direction it might taketaken from economic theory of the
production process6 basic preconditions for social
behavior:1) structural conduciveness2) structural strain3) growth & spread of generalized belief4) precipitation factors5) mobilization for action6) social control
CHAPTER 17: CLASSWORKPage 448: #2-3Page 455: #2-3Page 458: #1-10 Identifying People & IdeasPage 458: #1-7 Understanding Main IdeasPage 459: #1-4 Building Social Studies
Skills
Group Activity: Collective Behavior
PostersIn groups of 3, create a poster for 1 of the
previously discussed types of social behavior.
Be sure to include relevant facts, examples & illustrations to support your definitions.