Sociology 1025A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Collective Behavior

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 1025A/B
• Professor: Lauren Barr

Document Summary

Chapter 13 social change: collective behaviour and social. Collective behaviour group behavior that is relatively spontaneous, unstructured, and unconventional in nature o. Crowd a temporary gathering of people who are in the same place at the same time o. Casual crowds a gathering of people who by proximity alone happen to be in the same location at the same time. Conventional crowd a group of people who have gathered in the same place at the same time because of a common shared interest or objective. Expressive crowd a gathering of people who share a common interest and are gathered at the same event at the same time with a explicit participatory purpose. Acting crowd a group of people gathered at the same place at the same time and who engage in overt collective behavior in pursuit of a common goal. Claims that like-minded people come together to behave in accordance with predisposition.