Sociology 1025A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Social Movement Organization, Social Movement Theory, Suggestibility
10 Dec 2015
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Collective behavior- group behavior that is relatively spontaneous, unstructured, and unconventional in nature. Crowd a temporary gathering of people who are in the same place at the same time. Casual crowd - 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 an explicit participatory purpose i. e. fans at a hockey game. 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 i. e. protests. Contagion theory gustave le bon, people lose their individuality in crowds and are transformed in a.
