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Collective Behavior and Social Movements - Coggle Diagram
Collective Behavior and Social Movements
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Types of Collective Behavior
Collective Behavior: Relatively spontaneous and relatively unstructured behavior by a large numbers of individuals acting with or being influenced by other individuals.
Crowds
Crowd: a large number of people who gather together with a common short-term or long-term purpose.
Acting Crowd
Mob: an intensely emotional crowd that commits or is ready to commit violence.
Panic: a sudden reaction by a crowd that involves self-destructive behavior.
Riots
Riot: a relatively spontaneous outburst of violence by a large group of people.
Social Movements
Social movement: an organized effort by a large number of people to bring about or impede social, political, economic, of cultural change.
Disaster Behavior
Disaster: an accident of natural catastrophe that causes many deaths and much property destruction.
Disaster Behavior: behavior that occurs during and after a disaster.
Rumors, Mass Hysteria, and Moral Panics
Rumor: a story based on unreliable sources that is nonetheless passed on from one person to another person.
Mass Hysteria: widespread, intense fear of and concern for a danger that turns out to be false or greatly exaggerated.
Moral Panic: Widespread concern over a perceived threat to the moral order that turns out to be false or greatly exaggerated.
Fads and Crazes
Fad: a rather insignificant activity or product that is popular for a relatively short time.
Craze: a temporary activity that attracts the obsessive enthusiasm of a relatively small group of people.
Explaining Collective Behavior
Social Movements
Discontent with Existing Conditions and relative Deprivation
Relative deprivation: the feeling by individuals that they are deprived relative to some other group or to some ideal state they have not reached.
Resources mobilization and political opportunities
Resource mobilization theory: the view that social movements are a rational response to perceived grievance and that they arise from efforts by social movement leaders to mobilized the resources especially the time, money , and energy, of aggrieved peoples and to direct them into effective political action.
Political opportunity theory: The view that a social movements is more likely to arise and persist when economic or political conditions weaken the government's ability to opposed the movement.