Soc 12/5/06

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extraordinary activities carried out by groups of people

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collective behavior

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Gustave LeBon's term for the tendency of people in a crowd to feel, think, and act in extraordinary ways

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collective mind

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Robert Park's term for back and forth communication between the members of a crowd whereby a "collective impulse" is transmitted

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circular reaction

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Blumer's term for an excited group that moves towards a goal

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acting crowd

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Step 1 of an acting crowd

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Tension or unrest

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Step 2 of an acting crowd

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exciting event

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Step 3 of an acting crowd

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MILLING: a crowd standing or walking around as they talk excitedly about some event

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Step 4 of an acting crowd

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a common object of attention

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Step 5 of an acting crowd

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common impulses

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Robert Berk's term for the efforts people make to minimize their costs and maximize their rewards

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minimax strategy

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Turner and 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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emergent norms

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type of participant who feels a personal stake in the unusual event

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ego involved

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type of participant who has a personal interest in the event, but less than the ego involved

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the concearned

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the participants who care little about the issue, but they join the crowd because it gives them a sense of power, security, or feeling of belonging

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the curious spectators

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the participants who don't care about the event but use it for their own purpose like hawking food or shirts

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the exploiters

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violent crowd behavior directed at people and property

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riot

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unfounded information spread around people

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rumor

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three things that make rumors more believable

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1. deal with a subject important to an individual
2. replace ambiguity with certainty
3. attributed to a credible source

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the condition of being so fearful that one cannot function normally, and may even flee

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panic

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the incorporation of additional activities into a role

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role extensions

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an imagined threat that causes physical symptoms among a large number of people

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mass hysteria

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a fear that grips a large number of people that some evil threatens the well-being of society followed by hostility, sometimes violence towards those thought responsible

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moral panic

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a temporary pattern of behavior that catches peoples' attentions

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fad

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very short, intense fads

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crazes

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a pattern of behavior that catches peoples' attention and lasts longer than a fad

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fashion

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a story with an ironic twist that sounds realistic but is false

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urban legend

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a large group of people who are organized to promote or resist some social change

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social movement

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a social movement that promotes social change

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proactive social movement

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a social movement that resists some social change

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reactive social movement

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an organization people develop to further the goals of a social movement

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social movement organization

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a social movement that seeks to alter only some specific aspects of people (individual)(stop drinking)

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alterative social movement

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a social movement that seeks to change people totally (religious- change whole person)

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redemptive social movement

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a social movement that seeks to change only some specific aspects of society (Civil Right's movement)

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reformative social movement

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a social movement that seeks to change society totally (revolutions, ie. french)

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transformative social movement

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a social movement based on the prophecy of coming social upheaval

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millenarian social movement

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a millenarian social movement in which south pacific islanders destroyed their possessions in anticipation that their ancestors would ship them new goods

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cargo cult

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a social movement whose emphasis is on some condition around the world, instead of on a condition in a specific country (animal rights)

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transnational social movement

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a social movement that has the goal to change the social order not just of a society or two but of the entire world (communism, facism)

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metaformative social movement

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s dispersed group of people relevant to a social movement

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public

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movement accepted by authorities

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insitutionalized

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how people think about some issue

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public opinion

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the presentation of information in the attempt to influence people, or one sided info trying to influence people

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propaganda

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technique, "insensitive to the poor"

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name calling

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technique, general terms, "a real democrat"

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glittering genrality

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flags in the background of beer commercial

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transfer

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all types of propaganda (7)

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name calling, glittering generality, bandwagon, testimonials, transfer, card stacking, plain folks

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for any single point of view on some topic, there are competing view points

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multiple realities

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Kornhauser's term for an explanation for why people participate in a social movement based on the assumption that the movement offers them a sense of belonging

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mass society theory

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people who feel deprived, ie money, justice, status, etc, join social movements with the hope of redressing their grievances

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deprivation theory

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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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relative deprivation theory

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a sense of outrage at finding out what "really" is going on

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moral shock

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someone who joins a group in order to spy on it and sabotage it by provoking its members to commit extreme acts

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agent provacateur

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stage 1 of social movement

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initial unrest and agitation

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stage 2 of social movement

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resource mobilization(a theory 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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stage 3 of social movement

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organization- division of labor, rank daily tasks

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stage 4 of social movement

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institutionalization- hierarchy made, collective excitement diminishes

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stage 5 of social movement

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organizational decline and possible resurgence, diminishing leadership