SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Social Control, Peace Movement, European Canadian
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Week 11: chapter 21 (collective action and social movements) The study of collective action and social movements. It is widely believed that people who engage in non-routine collective action lose their individuality and capacity for reason. However, this deflects attention from the social organization and inner logic of extraordinary sociological events. Fowler reinforced and inflamed prejudice toward the chinese, starting an uncontrollable riot in chinatown, hurling insults, throwing rocks through windows, and beating and occasionally stabbing any chinese people who were unable to flee or hide. Breakdown theory: a functionalist approach to collective action. Pre-1970 sociologists would have said that the vancouver riot was caused by one or more of the following factors: the discontent of socially marginal people foreign agitators . Two norms were violated: cultural and economic. Asians were regarded as a threat to cultural integrity. Inherent irrationality of crowd behaviour in a crowd an individual is transformed into a.
