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Collective behavior & social movements

Terms in this set (36)

collective behavior extraordinary activities carried out by groups of people; includes lynchings, rumors, panics, urban legends, fads, and fashions
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collective mind Gustave LeBon's term for the tendency of people in a crowd to feel, think, and act in extraordinary ways
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circular reaction Robert Park's term for a back-andforth communication among the members of a crowd whereby a "collective impulse" is transmitted
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acting crowd an excited group of people who move toward a goal
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milling a crowd standing or walking around as they talk excitedly about some event
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minimax strategy Richard Berk's term for the efforts people make to minimize their costs and maximize their rewards
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emergent norms Ralph Turner and Lewis Killian's term for the idea that people develop new norms to cope with a new situation; used to explain crowd behavior
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riot violent crowd behavior directed at people and property
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rumor unfounded information spread among people
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panic the condition of being so fearful that one cannot function normally and may even flee
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mass hysteria an imagined threat that causes physical symptoms among a large number of people
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moral panic a fear gripping a large number of people that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society; followed by hostility, sometimes violence, toward those thought responsible
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fad a temporary pattern of behavior that catches people's attention
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fashion a pattern of behavior that catches people's attention and lasts longer than a fad
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urban legend a story with an ironic twist that sounds realistic but is false
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social movement a large group of people who are organized to promote or resist some social change
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proactive social movement a social movement that promotes some social change
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reactive social movement a social movement whose goal is to resist some social change
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social movement organization an organization to promote the goals of a social movement
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alterative social movement a social movement that seeks to alter only some specific aspects of people and institutions
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redemptive social movement a social movement that seeks to change people and institutions totally, to redeem them
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reformative social movement a social movement that seeks to reform some specific aspect of society
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transformative social movement a social movement that seeks to change society totally, to transform it
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millenarian social movement a social movement based on the prophecy of coming social upheaval
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cargo cult a social movement in which South Pacific islanders destroyed their possessions in the anticipation that their ancestors would ship them new goods
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transnational social movements social movements whose emphasis is on some condition around the world, instead of on a condition in a specific country; also known as new social movements
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metaformative social movement a social movement that has the goal to change the social order not just of a country or two, but of a civilization, or even of the entire world
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public in this context, a dispersed group of people relevant to a social movement; the sympathetic and hostile publics have an interest in the issues on which a social movement focuses; there is also an unaware or indifferent public
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public opinion how people think about some issue
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propaganda in its broad sense, the presentation of information in an attempt to influence people; in its narrow sense, one-sided information used to try to influence people
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relative deprivation theory in this context, the belief that people join social movements based on their evaluations of what they think they should have compared with what others have
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agent provocateur someone who spies on a group or tries to sabotage it
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militarization of social institutions the use of social institutions to fulfill military goals
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resource mobilization the idea that social movements succeed or fail based on their ability to mobilize resources such as time, money, and people's skills
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propaganda in its broad sense, the presentation of information in an attempt to influence people; in its narrow sense, one-sided information used to try to influence people
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rumor unfounded information spread among people
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