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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
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