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Preconditions
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Refers to the surronding social structure that makes it possible for a particular type of collective behavior.
What is Structural Conductiveness?
100
Relatively spontaneous social behavior that occurs when people try to develop common solutions to unclear situations.
What is Collective Behavior?
100
A crowd is a temporary collection of people who are in close enough proximity to interact.
What is Crowds?
100
Hypnotic power of a crowd encourages people to give up their individuality to the stronger pull of the group.
What is Contagion Theory?
100
Who beat Rihanna?
Chris Brown.
200
Refers to social conditions that put strain on people and so encourage them to seek some collective means to relieve this strain. Structural Strain can be produced by conditions of poverty, overcrowding, discrimination, and conflict.
What is Structural Strain?
200
A collection of people who have limited interacton with each other and who do not share clearly defined, conventional norms.
What is A Collectivity?
200
A spontaneous and uncoordinated group action to escape some perceived threat
What is Panics?
200
People in a crowd often are faced with a situation in which traditional norms of behavior do not apply.
What is Emergent-Norm Theory?
200
Which movie has the tall crazy blue people that hiss like cats?
Avatar.
300
Makes the structural strain personally meaningful for people as individuals begin to identify the problem, form opinions about it, and share ways of dealing with it.
What is Growth&Spread of a Generalized Belief?
300
Members of social groups generally interact with each other directly often for long periods of time interaction among members of collectivities, however is limited and sometimes nonexistent.
What is Limited Interaction?
300
An emotionally charged collectivity whose members are united by a specific destructive or violent goal.
What is Mobs and Riots?
300
At this point in the sequence Collective Behavior can be controlled if mechanisms exist to prevent or minimize the situation.
What is Social Control?
300
Whose palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti? Who is the Artist?
Eminem.
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refers to some kind of triggering mechanism that sets off the behavior. These factors are quite dramatic and give confirming evidence th the general beief. The confirming evidence then adds to the structual strain felt by people.
What is precipitating factors?
400
The norms that guide behavior in social groups are clearly defined and widely understood. In collectivities however norms for behavior either are unclear or they are unconventional.
What is Unclear Norms?
400
Refers to enthusiastic attachments among large numbers of people for particular styles of appearance or behavior?
What is Fashion and Fads?
400
Collective behavior can happen anywhere from mobs, to fashion, panics, and rumors.
What is Varied phenomena?
400
Complete the phrase: "YOU'RE A JERK _ ____."
I KNOW!
500
The first 4 preconditions in the sequence of collective behavior set the stage for people to act?
What is Mobilization for Action?
500
The people who form social groups generally are united by an awareness that they are member of these groups. Members of colletivities on the other hand, seldom share a sense of group unity.
What is Limited Unity?
500
The four types of crowds.
What is Casual Crowds; Conventional Crowds; Expressive Crowds; Acting Crowds.
500
They build on one another and guide the outcome of Collective Behavior.
What is Preconditions?
500
The name of the plastic/metal part at the end of your shoelace.
What is an Aglet?