Group or crowd of people that gather to take action against a shared goal.
What is collective behavior?
100
Idea that technology plays a role in shaping society.
What is technological determinism?
100
Large group of people engaging in similar behavior.
What is mass behavior?
100
An activity intended to bring about social change
What is activism?
200
Major physical event, demographic factors, discoveries and innovations.
What are ways social change can occur?
200
Contagion theory and Emergent norm theory.
What are theories of collective behavior?
200
Changes in the broader culture’s relevant norms, values, meanings, and laws resulting from changes between changes in material or technology.
What is cultural lag?
200
interests or practices followed eagerly for a short time.
What is a fad?
200
The attempt to resist social changes, go back to an earlier form of social order.
What is regressive?
300
Natural disasters: hurricanes, earthquakes, or volcanic eruptions.
What is a major physical event?
300
Social group with leadership, organization, and
an ideological commitment to advance or resist social change
What is a social movement?
300
Spread of material and non-material culture to new cultural groups despite of the movement of people.
What is cultural diffusion?
300
When a behavior is rational for an individual but it can lead to disaster when practiced by many people.
What is a social dilemma?
300
The effort to promote forward-thinking social change
What is progressive?
400
Gender, social class, level of education, race, ethnicity, age (baby boomers).
What are demographic factors?
400
People who join a crowd or mob become “infected” by a mob mentality and lose the ability to reason.
What is contagion theory?
400
cultural influence resulting by adopting another culture’s products rather than by an imposing military force.
What is cultural imperialism?
400
When people over-exploit a resource and they exhaust or devalue that resource.
What is tragedy of the commons?
400
The social conditions and attitudes characteristic of industrialized societies, including the decline of tradition, an increase in individualism, and a belief in progress, technology, and science.
What is modernity?
500
Fire, wheel, oral contraceptives, technology.
What are discoveries and innovations?
500
Individual members of a crowd make their own decisions about behavior.
What is emergent norm theory?
500
A process where societies lose their uniqueness and become similar.
What is cultural leveling?
500
When individuals must contribute to a collective resource, even if they don't not benefit from it.
What is public goods dilemma?
500
The social conditions and attitudes characteristic of post-industrialized societies, including a focus on the production and management of information, and skepticism of science and technology.