SYG-1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Collective Behavior, Cultural Lag, Urban Design
14 Mar 2019
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Chapter 18 collective behavior, social movements, and social change. Collective behavior: some of the dynamics of society. The basis for social change: the modification of a culture, social institution or public policy over time. Conditions needed for collective behavior that leads to social movements: Issue: focus that jells people for some duration of time. Collective: simply a number of people acting together because there is- Organization behavior: as formal organizations because it lack an. Institutional behavior: as social institutions of religion, family. A structural factor draws people together, e. g. , love canal. The timing of the issue coincides with public concerns or notice, e. g. , A feeling that the existing social mechanism is not working or is ineffective, e. g. , civil right movement, love canal efforts to seek help from education and health agencies. Crowd types: a crowd does not collective behavior make. Crowd: a large number of people in a similar area (vs. a mass which is a.
