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Unit overview
Collective behavior andsocial movements
Examples of Social Movements in theUnited States & where are we now?
Collective Behavior (forms ofit etc.)
Homework reading onCollective Behavior- OurGuys
Types of movements, tacticsand stages- notes
The Wave- film
African Americans-
Hispanic, Latino/ Latinas-
Women-
LGBT movement –
Asian Americans-
Arab Americans –
Collective BehaviorDefinition: Spontaneous socialactions that occur when peoplerespond to unstructured andambiguous situations.
Characteristics of CollectiveBehavior
1.Represent the actions of groups of people, notindividuals.
2.Limited Interaction-Involve relationships that arisein unusual circumstances.
3.Capture the changing elements of society more thanother forms of social action.
Characteristics of CollectiveBehavior
4.May mark the beginnings of more organized socialbehavior.
5.Exhibit patterned behavior, not the irrationalbehavior of crazed individuals.
6.Usually appear to be highly emotional, even volatile.
Characteristics of CollectiveBehavior
7.Involve people communicating extensively throughrumors.
8.Are often associated with efforts to achieve socialchange.
Collective Behavior
Can causeunpredictableevents, etc
Can have powerfulshort term and longterm effects
Many forms (riots,lynching, masshysterias, panics,fad, fashion,rumors)
Crowds
Crowds are one form of collective behavior.
Crowds share several characteristics:
Crowds involve groups of people comingtogether in face-to-face or visual space with oneanother.
Crowds are brief.
Crowds are volatile.
Crowds usually have a sense of urgency.
Mob
Most violent for of acting crowd
Generally, unstable and limited length
Threat
Social Order
Challenge official authority
EX. Lynch Mobs—U.S
Riots
Sociologists see riots as a multitude of small crowdactions spread over a particular geographic area, wherethe crowd is directed at a particular target.
Riots occur when groups of people band together toexpress a collective grievance or when groups areprovoked by anger or excitement.
Larger, Last Longer, Cause More Widely Known
Panic
A panic is behavior that occurs when people in a groupsuddenly become concerned for their safety—fear.
People tend to flee in groups, often stopping to lookout for one another.
We know, for example, that in the World Trade Centeron 9/11, people for the most part tried to leave in anorderly fashion.
Panic: Three Factors
1.A perceived threat.
The threat is usually perceived as soimminent that there is no time to doanything but flee.
2. A sense of possible entrapment.
3.A failure of front-to-rear communication.
People at the rear of the crowd exert strongphysical or psychological pressure to advancetoward the goal.
Moral Panics
Fads and Fashions
Urban Legends and Rumors
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Forms of Collective Behavior
Forms of Collective Behavior
Emergent Norm Theory
Postulates that people faced with an unusualsituation can create meanings that define anddirect the situation.
Group norms govern collective behavior, but thenorms that are obeyed are newly created as thegroup responds to its new situation.
Members of the group follow norms—they justmay be created on the spot.
Social Movements
More People
A common goal to promote or prevent socialchange
Structured Organization with leaders
Activity over a long period of time
Alternative social movements are at the individual leveland advocate for minor change.—Small Pop. And Change(Promise Keepers)
Redemptive social movements are at the individual leveland advocate for radical changes.—Target Pop. And MajorChange (AA)
Reformative social movements occur at a broader group orsocietal level and advocate for minor changes.(environmental)
Revolutionary social movements occur at a broader groupor societal level and advocate for radical changes.
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Types of Social Movements
Types of Social Movements
Social Movements
A social movement is an organized social groupthat acts with continuity and coordination topromote or resist change in society or other socialunits.
Social movements are the most organized form ofcollective behavior, and they tend to be the mostsustained.
They often have a connection to the past, and theytend to become organized in coherent socialorganizations.
Elements Necessaryfor Social Movements
1.Pre-existing communication network.
2.Pre-existing grievance.
3.Precipitating incident.
4.Ability to mobilize.
Initial Unrest and Agitation
Resource Mobilization
Organization
Institutionalization
Organizational Decline and PossibleResurgence
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Success and Failure ofSocial Movements
Five Stages
Success and Failure ofSocial Movements
Five Stages
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Environment and Economy:Competing and Changing Views
Globalization, Diversity and SocialMovements
Social movements can be the basis ofrevolutionary change.
Some movements originating in one nation alsospill over to affect movements in another.
Transnational social movements haveorganizational structures that cross nationalborders.
Some of the most profound changes in the UnitedStates were the result of social movements fromour diverse population.
Leads to Social Change…
Transformation of culture and social institutions overtime
Happens all the time
Intentional or unplanned
Controversial
Some more important than others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ