SOCI 386 Chapter Notes -Political Opportunity, Free Rider Problem, Social Control
31 Mar 2013
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Believes that collective behaviour comes about during a period of social disruption when grievances are deeply felt. Concerned with the psychological states of participants. Collective behaviour develops in situations where established systems of meaning and sources of information have broken down, forcing participants to construct new meanings to guide their behaviour. Tumer and killian- role of the emergent norm as a shared view of reality that justifies and coordinates collective behaviour- emergent norms may become highly elaborated ideologies and are not fixed- may develop in response to interactions between individuals. Relies too heavily on structural strains to explain sms. No clear criteria exist for identifying strain in a society. Assumes societies are naturally stable and strains are unusual, when they may be a fairly constant feature of societies. Views collective behaviour as an extreme response to social isolation (based on.
