SOCC03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Collective Behavior, Do The Right Thing, Boombox
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No, it is spontaneous but it is a little but it is not institutional. Collective behaviour is spontaneous and unstructured, extra institutional and has a fairly large group of people. Essay top can be a certain context has a high degree of collective behaviour. How does something that is a collective behaviour slowly become institutionalized. Another frequent theme is that something starts as collective behaviour, how something becomes institutionalized and then it becomes a social movement. The public is a bunch of individuals that not within physical presence, but a crows is compact, members are in close physical proximity. Can these be overlapped, you can be part of a crowd (being in a classroom) and then you can be using social media and communicating with individuals which is public. You can only be part of one crowd but you can be a part of many different publics.
