Final- Ch. 21

Question 1

extraordinary activities carried out by groups of people; including lynchings, rumors, panics, urban legends, fads, and fashions

Answer 1

Collective Behavior

Question 2

Gustave Lebon’s term for the tendency of people in a crowd to feel, think, and act in extraordinary ways

Answer 2

Collective Mind

Question 3

Robert Park’s term for the back-and-forth communication among the members of a crowd whereby a “collective impulse” is transmitted.

Answer 3

Circular Reaction

Question 4

an exciting group of people who move toward a goal

Answer 4

Acting Crowd

Question 5

a crowd standing or walking around as they talk excitedly about some event

Answer 5

Milling

Question 6

Richard Berk’s term for the efforts people make to minimize their costs and maximize their rewards

Answer 6

Minimax Strategy

Question 7

Ralph Turner and Lewis Killian’s term for the idea that people develop new norms to cope with a new situation used to explain crowd behavior

Answer 7

Emergent Norms

Question 8

violent crowd behavior directed at people and property

Answer 8

Riot

Question 9

unfounded information spread among people

Answer 9

Rumor

Question 10

the condition of being so fearful that one cannot function normally and may even flee

Answer 10

Panic

Question 11

a role being stretched to include activities that were not originally part of that role

Answer 11

Role Extension

Question 12

an imagined threat that causes physical symptoms among a large number of people

Answer 12

Mass Hysteria

Question 13

a fear gripping a large number of people that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society; followed by hostility, sometimes violence, toward those thought responsible

Answer 13

Moral Panic

Question 14

a temporary pattern of behavior that catches people’s attention

Answer 14

Fad

Question 15

a pattern of behavior that catches people’s attention and lasts longer than a fad

Answer 15

Fashion

Question 16

a story with an ironic twist that sounds realistic but is false

Answer 16

Urban Legend

Question 17

a large group of people who are organized to promote or resist some social change

Answer 17

Social Movement

Question 18

a social movement that promotes some social change

Answer 18

Proactive Social Movement

Question 19

a social movement that resists some social change

Answer 19

Reactive Social Movement

Question 20

an organization to promote the goals of a social movement

Answer 20

Social Movement Organization

Question 21

a social movement that seeks to alter only some specific aspects of people and institutions

Answer 21

Alternative Social Movement

Question 22

a social movement that seeks to reform some specific aspect of society

Answer 22

Redemptive Social Movement

Question 23

a social movement that seeks to change society totally, to transform it

Answer 23

Transformative Social Movement

Question 24

a social movement based on the prophecy of coming social upheaval

Answer 24

Millenarian Social Movement

Question 25

a social movement in which South Pacific islanders destroyed their possessions in the anticipation that their ancestors would ship them new goods

Answer 25

Cargo Cult

Question 26

social movements whose emphasis is on some condition around the world, instead of on a condition in a specific country; also known as new social movements

Answer 26

Transnational Social Movements-

Question 27

a social movement that has the goal to change the social order not just of a country or two, but of a civilization, or even of the entire world

Answer 27

Metaformative Social Movement

Question 28

in this context, a dispersed group of people relevant to a social movement the sympathetic and hostile publics have an interest in the issues on which a social movement focuses; there is also an unaware or indifferent public

Answer 28

Public

Question 29

how people think about some issue

Answer 29

Public Opinion

Question 30

in its broad sense, the presentation of information in an attempt to influence people; in a narrow sense, one-sided information used to try to influence people

Answer 30

Propaganda

Question 31

in this context, the belief that people join social movements based on their evaluations of what they think they should have compared with what others have

Answer 31

Relative Deprivation Theory

Question 32

someone who spies on a group or tries to sabotage it

Answer 32

Agent Provocateur

Question 33

a theory that social movements succeed or fail based on their ability to mobilize resources such as time, money, and people’s skill

Answer 33

Resource Mobilization