Crowd Types
Walking in a NY city crosswalk, same time, same place
Casual
Focuses on the social-psychological aspects of collective behavior and argues that people are more likely to engage in a crowd because they are anonymous and feel invulnerable.
Contagion
civilizations are organisms: they are born, have enthusiastic youth, come to maturity, then decline and die
Natural Cycles Theory
During COVID, churches were upset and protested due to intense restrictions on people allowed to be in the churches due to social distancing.
Religious
A relatively large number of people who are in one another’s immediate vicinity.
Crowd
Example: Palestinians performing a sit-in outside of the US Capital building .
Protest
People with similar attributes find a collectivity of like-minded persons with whom they can express their underlying personal tendencies.
Convergence
all societies follow the same path of moving from simple to complex- Savagery, Barbarism, Civilization
Unilinear Evolution
MLK Jr fought for civil rights for all African Americans to change society.
Reform
Social unrest is transmitted through this. The discontent of one person is communicated to another, who, in turn, reflects the discontent back to the first person.
Circular Reaction
People at a concert. Fall Out Boy starts at 7pm!
Conventional
Scenario: In a zombie apocalypse or other earth shattering events, rules for a group or society may change, like not accepting strangers, that become new norms.
Emergent Norm
the discontent people feel when they compare their situation with other members of society and find that they have less than they think they deserve
Relative Deprivation Theory
In 1917, the Bolsheviks overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas II and created a communist society, completely uprooting Russian society in every single way, even remaining Russia the Soviet Union.
Revolutionary
Voluntary, often spontaneous activity that is engaged in by a large number of people and typically violates dominant-group norms and values.
Collective Behavior
The largest funeral in history was for C.N. Annadurai, a former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India, in 1969, with an estimated 15 million people attending.
Expressive
when certain conditions necessary for the development of a social movement exist, a social movement can form
Value Added Theory
Many older office workers have built stable careers in administrative and clerical jobs. They’re experienced and respected in their companies, but as new technologies like AI and automation become common, their roles start to disappear or change dramatically as those versed in AI are getting raises. This angers older office workers and they may feel the need to fight back.
Declining Privilege Theory
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) focuses on lessening the drunk driving through awareness and fundraisers.
Alternative
Collective behavior that takes place when people respond to the same event in the same way.
Mass Behavior
Reaction to real/perceived threat with emotion and self-destructive behavior.(looking for crowd type and sub type)
Panic
Sophia notices that wages are unfair between men and women at her job. She begins to form a nonprofit group called Equal Pay Now. She organizes volunteers to help research wages and launches a petition demanding for salary transparency. This is called.....
Resource mobilization
In North Korea, citizens were first able to get a cell phone in 2002, and even today, their internet is heavily monitored and censored by their government. According to this theory, we might see a cultural lag because of this.
Ogburn's
In a small industrial town, a new chemical plant begins releasing pollutants into the Green River due to policy changes. Local residents soon notice fish dying, children developing respiratory problems, and farmland becoming less fertile. Despite repeated complaints, government agencies take no action because the plant provides many jobs and pays local taxes. They start to boycott other products made by the company.
Reactionary/Resistance
a temporary but widely copied activity enthusiastically followed by large numbers of people is a ____________, while a _____________ is not as temporary and usually has qualities that ensure its success, like multiplayer features or can adapt to changing norms. (Read article in class)
Fad; Trend