Collective Behavior
Noninstitutionalized activity in which several or many people voluntarily engage.
What is collective behavior?
Focuses on the individual component of interaction reflects a symbolic interactionalist perspective
What is emergent norm perspective theory?
Collective and simultaneous participation in a speech or song
What is Collective verbalization?
The collection of social movement organizations that are striving towards similar goals.
What is the social movement industry?
a fairly large number of people in close proximity
What is a crowd?
There are three primary forms of collective behavior:
What are the crowd, the mass, and the public?
a perspective within the functionalist tradition based on the idea that several conditions must be in place for collective behavior to occur
What is value-added theory?
The direction and rate of movement to the event
What is Collective locomotion ?
the multiple social movement industries in a society even if they have widely varying constituents and goals
What is social movement sector?
consist of people who are in the same place at the same time but who aren’t really interacting,
What is a casual crowd?
a relatively large number of people with a common interest, though they may not be in close proximity
What is a mass?
understanding the collective behavior that credited individuals in crowds as rational beings
what is Assembling perspective?
Objects collectively moved around
What is Collective manipulation ?
States the problem in a clear, easily understandable way
What is diagnostic framing?
are those who come together for a scheduled event that occurs regularly,
What are conventional crowds?
an unorganized, relatively diffused group of people who share ideas,
What is a public?
A way to explain movement success in terms of that ability to acquire resources and mobilize individuals
What is resource mobilization theory?
Family and friends who travel together
What is Convergence clusters
gives a solution and states how it will be implemented.
What is prognostic framing?
are people who join together to express emotion, often at funerals, weddings, or the like.
what are expressive crowds?
The collective behavior movement that defied many theories and was based on the Tahrir movement. It occurred July 13, 2011 in New York.
What was occupy wall street?
attempts to explain the proliferation of postindustrial and postmodern movements that are difficult to analyze using traditional social movement theories
What is New Social Movement Theory?
Body parts forming symbols
What is Collective gesticulation ?
the call to action- "what you should do" once you agree with the diagnostic frame and believe in the prognosis frame.
What is motivational framing?
focuses on a specific goal or action, such as a protest movement or riot.
what are acting crowds?