Types of Collective Behavior
Name for collective behavior prompted by changes in a society's technology
What is collective behavior caused by "Adaptive Response"?
The name for Gustave LeBon's theory of collective behavior.
What is Mass Hysteria/Contagion theory?
The names of the 5 basic elements that must be present for collective action to take place, according to Value-Added Theory.
What are Structural conduciveness, Structural strain, Generalized Belief, Mobilization for action, and Action of social control?
Those who studied protests and social movements were the first to suggest this about protest crowds engaged in collective action.
What is that these crowds have a purpose, and goals? (e.g. not irrational or swept up in emotion)
Which collective behavior theory most completely applies to a crowd of sports fans rioting because their team won a championship?
What is Mass Hysteria/Contagion theory?
Name for collective behavior arising because of dissatisfaction about what is happening in a society.
What is collective behavior caused by "Social Strain"?
The name for Turner & Killan's theory of collective behavior
What is Emergent Norm Theory?
The term used to describe how the way a society is set up provides the opportunity (or not) for collective action to take place, according to Value-Added Theory.
What is structural conduciveness? (if you live in a society that doesn't allow protests (like Russia and similar), then you don't have structural conduciveness).
This theory suggested that people look to others in a crowd, and adjust their own behavior accordingly (This is NOT Emergent Norm theory; it's later)
What is Perception Control Theory? (see pg 45 in text)
The theory that best describes a protest situation, where a loud member of the crowd throws a brick through a window, and others seeing that do the same.
What is Emergent Norm Theory?
Name for collective behavior caused by being influenced by the affective state of the people around you, like getting "caught up in a crowd's energy"?
What is collective behavior caused by "Aroused emotion"?
The name for Herbert Blumer's explanation for how a crowd behaves?
What is Circular reaction?
The term used to describe the role of how people perceive who to blame for social conditions, or what they fear might be happening, as one of the factors required for collective action to start, according to Value-Added Theory.
What is Generalized belief? (In the book example, if everyone believes the stock market is crashing, they will all try to sell their shares at the same time - a collective action)
Name of the theory that looks at the political opportunity structure within which social movements rise (or don't).
What is Political Process Theory? [from lecture]
The theory that best describes why protests don't arise under governments that forbid and repress protest.
What is Political Process Theory?
From lecture, swallowing goldfish in the 1920s was this type of collective behavior.
What is a "fad"?
The name for McPhail's theory, that looked at actual crowd behavior and found that crowds are seldom disorderly.
What is Social Behavioral Interactionist (SBI) theory?
The term used to describe the point in time when people actually come together to engage in a collective action, according to Value-Added Theory.
What is Mobilization for action?
In a gathering, the name McPhail gave to the activity of people marching down a street, as in a protest march.
What is collective locomotion?
The theory that seeks to define and understand behavior like people doing "the wave" in a crowd at a football game.
What is McPhail's Social Behavioral Interactionist (SBI) Theory?
In the beginning of studies of collective behavior in the 1800s, this is what theorists were trying to explain.
What is crowd behavior? (like mobs in the French Revolution, or elsewhere).
The word McPhail used instead of "crowds" when studying collective behavior.
What are "Gatherings"
Smelser believed that collective action was an effort to do this, according to Value-Added Theory.
Name for the theory that looks at how social movement organizations operate.
What is Resource Mobilization theory?
The theory that focuses on how social movement organizations get what why need to operate effectively.
What is Resource Mobilization Theory?