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Refers to a situation in which people have a lesser portion of social rewards compared to other people or group.
Relative Deprivation
A temporary collection of people, who are in close enough proximity to interact. Sociologist Herbert Blumber has identified four types of what?
Crowds
Return to traditional ways of acting and thinking.
Resistance Movement.
A public opinion that can be true or false
Propaganda
The first systematic theory of collective behavior that was developed in 1896 by Gustave Lebon and was the hypnotic power of a crowd encourages people to give up their indivvisuality to the stronger pull of the group.
Contagion Theory.
A scary or funny story told by someone "who knew someone that this had happened to their friend" to scare people.
Urban Legend
A collection of people who have limited interaction with each other and who do not have clearly defined forms is what?
Collectivity.
Is to improve some parts of society through social change.
Reform Movement
A particular style of appearance.
Fashions
Low pay and harsh working conditions led many workers to seek support for unions that would protect employee interests.
Agitation
Refers to the collection of differing attitudes that members of a public have about a particular issue.
Public Opinion
An emotionally charged collectively whose member are united by a specific structive or violent goal.
Mobs
People who wish to remove them self from society and wish to make their own ideal society.
Utopian Movement
A trend done for a short period of time
Fad
Not even the most ill-treated group with the most just cause will be able to bring about change without resources.
Resource-Mobilization Theory.
An unfounded anxiety shared by people who are scattered over a wide geographic area.
Mass Hysteria.
A collection of people who erupt in generalized destructive behavior.
Riots
Is a total and radical change of the existing social structure.
Revolutionary Movement.
The fourth precondition for collective behavior
Precipitating factor
THis crowd has no seeming goal or purpose. This type of crowd forms around activites that have an emotional character to them, such as a religous revival or a rock concert.
Expressive Crowd.
An unverified piece of information that is spread rapidly from one person to another.
Rumor
Some collectivites are formed not by violence but by fear.
Effort to promote or prevent social change.
Social Movement
A social condition that puts strain on people
Structural Strain.
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