SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Mass Hysteria, Collective Behavior, Civil Disobedience
22 Feb 2016
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Collective behaviour: voluntary spontaneous activity by large number of people that violates dominant group norms and values. Collectivity: large number of people who mutually bypass institutional: structural factors increase chances of people responding in particular patterns and structures way. Crowds: relatively large number in one another"s immediate vicinity: timing, breakdown in social control mechanism, casual/conventional: brief interaction (scheduled event, expressive: opportunities for expression of emotion (mourners, acting: focused on specific purpose, destructive behaviour. Mobs: highly emotional crowd against a specific target. Riots: highly emotional crowd but not one specific target. Panic: large number of people react to threat with strong emotions. Masses: large number of people who are not in immediate vicinity but share. Mass behaviour: behaviour when people (separated) respond to event in common interest same way: rumors and gossip: unsubstantiated reports. Stages in social movements: preliminary: unrest, awareness of problem, coalescence: organize and publicize problem, institutionalization: structure develops and people lead group.
