The Participants in an Acting Crowd
The ______ don’t care about the event; they use it for their own purposes, such as selling food or T-shirts. For them, a rock concert would serve the same purpose.
What is the exploiters
A _______ is at the root of collective behavior is a background condition of tension or unrest. In the early 1900s when Sam Pettie was killed, the country was industrializing, and southern life was in upheaval. In their search for jobs, millions of Americans were moving from farm to city and from South to North. Left behind were many poor, rural southerners, white and black, who faced a bleak future
what is background of tension or unrest
______ studied under Parl, synthesized LeBons and Park’s ideas, on how an excited group moves towards a goal (acting crowd)
What is Herbert Blumer
____ is Gustave LeBon’s term for the tendency of people in a crowd to feel, think, and act in extraordinary ways
What is a collective minds
Sarah was involved in the first wave of feminism. She was thrilled when women got the vote, which is the goal she had sought. Sarah was part of the __________.
What is the conservative branch of the first wave
The _____ spectators also care little about the issue; they are simply curious about what is going on.
What is the curious
A _____ event occurs, one so startling that people become preoccupied with it. In this instance, that event was the killing of a police officer
What is an exciting event
______ was a French psychologist that built on Mackey’s initial idea of the “herd mentality”; he stressed how people feel anonymous in crowds and therefore less accountable for what they do; some can even develop feeling of invincibility and come to think that they can do almost anything
What is Gustave LeBon
____ is a back-and-forth communication among the members of a crowd that produces a “collective impulse”; a term coined by Robert Park; very similar to LeBon’s term “collective mind”
Circular reaction
__________ takes advantage of the work of minority group members and allows the dominant group to reap the economic gain.
What is Internal Colonialism
The _____ care little about the matter; they join the crowd because it gives them a sense of power, security, or belonging.
What is the insecure
Next comes _____, people standing or walking around, talking about the exciting event. A circular reaction then sets in. Picking up cues about the “right” way to think and feel about the event, people reinforce these emotions in one another. Members of the mob that killed Sam Pettie milled only a short time, but while they did, they became increasingly agitated as they discussed the officer’s death
What is milling
______ was a sociologist that lived in the United States and studied in Germany, writing a 1904 dissertation on the nature of the crowd, which was influenced by Lebon! ; he added that the idea of social unrest was “transmitted from one individual to another, so that the manifestations of discontent are communicated from person to person
What is Robert Park
_____ the fewer costs and the more rewards we anticipate from something, the more likely we are to do it.
what is minimax strategy
The family that is formed when a couple’s first child is born is referred to as a _________
What is a Family of procreation
The ______ also have a personal interest in the event, but less so than the ego-involved.
What is the concerned
_____ is people’s attention becoming riveted on some aspect of the event, they get caught up in collective excitement. In this case, people’s attention turned to Sam Pettie. Someone may have said that he had been talking to the officer or that they had been arguing.
What is a common object of attention
_____ a British journalist, noticed that “country folks,” who ordinarily are reasonable sorts of people, sometimes “went mad” and did “disgraceful and violent things” when they formed a crowd
What is Charles Mackay (1814-1889)
____ are people that develop new corms to cope with a new situation; used to explain crowd behavior
What is emergent norms
What are the 4 types of crowd behavior
What are a Casual Crowd, Conventional Crowd, An expressive crowd, an acting crowd
The ______ feel a personal stake in the unusual event.
What is the ego-involved
____ is people get the feeling that they are in agreement about what should be done. These common impulses are stimulated by social contagion, a sense of excitement that is passed from one person to another. In this instance, people concluded that only the killer’s immediate death would be adequate vengeance
What is common impulses
______ says, even a lynch mob is cooperative—someone gets the rope while others hold the victim, some tie the knot, and others hoist the body. This is exactly what you saw in Pettie’s execution—the men working together: the rope, the boxes, the straw, and the oil
Clark McPhail
____ is a broad term that encompasses extraordinary activities carried out by groups of people; includes lynchings, rumors, panics, moral panics, urban legends, fads, and fashions
A sports team just lost a major national championship. Their fans, who are normally well-behaved, take to the streets in a large group and feed off one another's feelings. While they would never dream of acting violently on an individual basis, they now begin flipping over cars and lighting fires. This is an example of a _____ mentality
What is a mob mentality