A theory of social movements that assumes people join not because of the movements' ideals, but to satisfy a psychological need to belong to something larger than themselves.
What is Mass Society Theory
100
A theory of social change that assumes changes in technology drive changes in society, rather than vice versa.
What is Technological Determinism
100
A community of people linked by their consumption of the same digital media.
What is Virtual Community
100
This is transforming Western society from modern to postmodern.
What is Information Revolution
200
One of the earliest theories of collective action; suggested that the individuals who joined a crowd can be "infected" by a mob mentality and lose the ability to reason.
What is Contagion Theory
200
A theory of social movements that focuses ont he action of oppressed groups who seek rights or opportunities already enjoyed by others in a society.
What is Relative Deprivation Theory
200
The time between changes in material culture or technology and the resulting changes in the broader culture's relevant norms, values, meanings, and laws.
What is Cultural Lag
200
Marshall McLuhan's term describing the way that new communication technologies override barriers of space and time, joining together people all over the globe.
What is Global Village
200
The uneven distribution of technology among different groups of people.
What is Digital Divide
300
A theory of collective behavior that assumes individual members of a crowd make their own decisions about behavior and that norms are created through others' acceptance or rejection of these behaviors.
What is Emergent Norm Theory
300
Stages in a social movement.
What is Incipient, Coalescence, Bureaucratization, and Decline.
300
Material culture can be represented as this.
What is Technology
300
The process by which societies lose their uniqueness, becoming increasingly similar.
What is Cultural Leveling
300
A term encompassing the forms of social organization that characterized industrialized societies, including the decline of tradition, an increase in individualism, and a belief in progress, technology, and science.
What is Modernity
400
Three factors that contribute to mass behavior.
What is Fashion, Fads, and Social Dilemas
400
In addition to a tolerant society, social movements need these aspects.
What is Volunteers, Funding, Office Space, Telephone Banks, Computers, Internet Access, Copy Machines, and Pens and Pencils.
400
Material culture often changes faster than this.
What is Nonmaterial Culture
400
A Canadian communications researcher who subscribed to the notion of technological determinism. He expressed a degree of optimism that amounted to a utopian vision of what the various media could do for human society.
Who is Marshall McLuhan
400
A term encompassing the forms of social organization characteristic of post industrial societies, including a focus on the production and management of information and skepticism of science and technology.