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31 Cards in this Set
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Collective behavior generally lacks what kind of backing? |
Institutional backing |
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Mass hysteria, panics, crazes, fads, fashions, and rumors are types of what? |
Collective behavior |
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What is the name for a collective strong emotional response to tension and anxiety in a group? |
Mass hysteria |
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What is the name for a collective overwhelming feeling and awareness of needing to escape a dangerous situation immediately? |
Panic |
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The way people act when a fire breaks out in a movie theater is an example of what kind of collective behavior? |
Panic |
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What is the type of collective behavior where people become obsessed with wanting something because "everyone else seems to have it"? |
Craze |
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What is the type of short term obsession with a behavior that is unexpected and widely copied? |
Fad |
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What is the name for the collective behavior regarding styles and attitudes towards dress, hair styles, music, etc? |
Fashions |
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Which lasts longer, a fashion or a fad? |
Fashion |
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What is the term for a piece of unconfirmed public information that may or may not be accurate? |
Rumor |
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What is typically the source of a rumor? |
The source is typically anonymous |
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What is the name for a relatively large number of people in close proximity to one another, reacting at once to a common interest or focus? |
Crowd |
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Spectators at a football game, participants at a parade, and rioters are examples of what type of collective behavior? |
Crowd |
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What is the name for a group of people who are concerned with a problem or phenomena, without necessarily being together in the same place at the same time? |
Mass |
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Which is more spontaneous, a mob or a riot? |
Mob |
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Which tends to involve more people and last longer - a mob or a riot? |
Riot |
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What is the name for the "passive crowd" responding to a social situation in an orderly and predictable way? |
Audience |
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What is the term for the actual opinions people have about a given issue? |
Public opinion |
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What is the term for attempts to affect and change what the public sees and how the public perceives an issue? |
Propaganda |
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Contagion, convergence, and emergent-norm theories have attempted to make sense of what? |
Unconventional collective behavior |
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Gustave LeBon developed what theory? |
Contagion theory |
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What is the theory that a crowd exerts a powerful influence on its members, turning individuals into part of the collective mind of the crowd?
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Contagion theory |
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What theory contends that motivations of a crowd is a result of the convergence of individuals with particular motivations? |
Convergence theory |
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Ralph Turner and Lewis Killian developed what theory in 1987? |
Emergent-norm theory |
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What theory argues that crowds are influenced by certain individuals who construct a new norm, which the rest of the group then follows? |
Emergent-norm theory |
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What does emergent-norm theory argue? |
That crowds do not necessarily begin with individuals of the same motives and ideas Instead, a small number of individuals create new norms which the rest of the crowd then follows |
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What is it called when members of a population have opinions and beliefs that they act on in a way which shows their opposition to a particular movement? |
Countermovement |
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What is the name for the process whereby the ideas of those involved in a social movement come to be known and accepted? |
Institutionalization |
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What is the name of the process where the original goals of a movement are rejected or set aside in favor of the goal of preserving formal structures? |
Goal displacement |
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At what levels does social movement occur? |
The public level of government policy The private level of real concrete action |
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What is the name for formal organizations that are specifically created for the purpose of channeling either dissatisfaction and discontent into change, or satisfaction and contentment into conservation of tradition? |
Social movement organizations |
