Final- Ch. 21 Flashcards
extraordinary activities carried out by groups of people; including lynchings, rumors, panics, urban legends, fads, and fashions
Collective Behavior
Gustave Lebon’s term for the tendency of people in a crowd to feel, think, and act in extraordinary ways
Collective Mind
Robert Park’s term for the back-and-forth communication among the members of a crowd whereby a “collective impulse” is transmitted.
Circular Reaction
an exciting group of people who move toward a goal
Acting Crowd
a crowd standing or walking around as they talk excitedly about some event
Milling
Richard Berk’s term for the efforts people make to minimize their costs and maximize their rewards
Minimax Strategy
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
Emergent Norms
violent crowd behavior directed at people and property
Riot
unfounded information spread among people
Rumor
the condition of being so fearful that one cannot function normally and may even flee
Panic
a role being stretched to include activities that were not originally part of that role
Role Extension
an imagined threat that causes physical symptoms among a large number of people
Mass Hysteria
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
Moral Panic
a temporary pattern of behavior that catches people’s attention
Fad
a pattern of behavior that catches people’s attention and lasts longer than a fad
Fashion
a story with an ironic twist that sounds realistic but is false
Urban Legend
a large group of people who are organized to promote or resist some social change
Social Movement
a social movement that promotes some social change
Proactive Social Movement
a social movement that resists some social change
Reactive Social Movement
an organization to promote the goals of a social movement
Social Movement Organization
a social movement that seeks to alter only some specific aspects of people and institutions
Alternative Social Movement
a social movement that seeks to reform some specific aspect of society
Redemptive Social Movement
a social movement that seeks to change society totally, to transform it
Transformative Social Movement
a social movement based on the prophecy of coming social upheaval
Millenarian Social Movement
a social movement in which South Pacific islanders destroyed their possessions in the anticipation that their ancestors would ship them new goods
Cargo Cult
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
Transnational Social Movements-
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
Metaformative Social Movement
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
Public
how people think about some issue
Public Opinion
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
Propaganda
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
Relative Deprivation Theory
someone who spies on a group or tries to sabotage it
Agent Provocateur
a theory that social movements succeed or fail based on their ability to mobilize resources such as time, money, and people’s skill
Resource Mobilization
