Preconditions and Characteristics I
The type of norms that can influence behavior in a collectivities.
What are Unclear nroms?
A collection of people who have limited interaction with each other and who do not share clearly defined, conventional norms.
What is a collectivitie?
An organized and deliberate attempt to shape public opinion.
What is Propaganda?
A spontaneous and uncoordinated group action to escape some perceived threat.
What is a Panic?
The least organized and most temporary type of crowd.
What is a casual crowd?
Members of a social groups generally interact with each other directly, often for long periods of time.
What is Limited interaction?
People who form social groups generally are united by an awareness that they are members of these groups.
What is Limited unity?
An unfounded anxiety shared by people who are scattered over a wide geographic area.
What is Mass hysteria?
Enthusiastic attachments among large numbers of people for particular styles of appearance or behavior.
What are Fashions?
This type of crowd forms around activities that have an emotional character to them, such as a religious revival or a rock concert.
What is an expressive crowd?
These factors usually are quite dramatic and often give confirming evidence to the generalized belief.
What are Precipitating Factors?
This third precondition adds to the likelihood that collective behavior will result as individuals begin to identify the problem, form options about it, and consider ways of dealing with it.
What is Growth of a Generalized Belief?
The collection of differing attitudes that members of a public have about a particular issue.
What is Public opinion?
What is a riot?
This crowd is often formed by a dramatic event and results in the violation of established norms.
What is an acting crowd?
The surrounding social structure conduciveness, refers to the surrounding social structure that make it possible for a particular type of collective behavior to happen?
What is Structural Conduciveness?
The first four preconditions in the sequence of collective behavior set the stage for people to act.
What is Mobilization for Action?
An unconventional thought or action that a large number of people are attached for a very short period of time.
An unverified piece of information that is spread rapidly from one person to another.
What is a rumor?
People may not interact with each other very much, but they act according to established rules of behavior. Usually they are gathered together for a common purpose, such as a funeral, a public lecture, or a baseball game.
What is a conventional crowd?
The relativity spontaneous social behavior that occurs when people try to develop common solutions to unclear situations.
What is collective behavior?
Not enough control to prevent or minimize situations.
What is Inadequate Social Control.
Stories that are untrue but that seem realistic and teach a lesson.
What is Urban legends?
An emotionally charged collectivity whose members are united by a specific destructive or violent goal.
What is a mob?
A temporary collection of people who are in close enough proximity to interact.
What is a crowd?