Social Movements and Social Change Flashcards
Acting Crowds:
Crowds of people who are focused on a specific action or goal.
Alternative Movements:
Social movements that limit themselves to self-improvement changes in individuals.
Assembling Perspective:
A theory that credits individuals in crowds as behaving as rational thinkers and views crowds as engaging in purposeful behavior and collective action.
Casual Crowds:
People who share close proximity without really interacting.
Collective Behavior:
A noninstitutionalized activity in which several people voluntarily engage.
Conventional Crowds:
People who come together for a regularly scheduled event.
Crowd:
A fairly large number of people who share close proximity.
Crowdsourcing:
The process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people.
Diagnostic Framing:
A social problem that is stated in a clear, easily understood manner.
Emergent Norm Theory:
A perspective that emphasizes the importance of social norms in crowd behavior.
Expressive Crowds:
Crowds who share opportunities to express emotions.
Flash Mob:
A large group of people who gather together in a spontaneous activity that lasts a limited amount of time.
Frame Alignment Process:
Using bridging, amplification, extension, and transformation as an ongoing and intentional means of recruiting participants to a movement.
Mass:
A relatively large group with a common interest, even if they may not be in close proximity.
Modernization:
The process that increases the amount of specialization and differentiation of structure in societies.
Motivational Framing:
A call to action.
New Social Movement Theory:
A theory that attempts to explain the proliferation of postindustrial and postmodern movements that are difficult to understand using traditional social movement theories.
Nongovernmental Organizations:
Work globally for numerous humanitarian and environmental causes.
Prognostic Framing:
Social movements that state a clear solution and a means of implementation.
Public:
An unorganized, relatively diffuse group of people who share ideas.
Redemptive Movements:
Movements that work to promote inner change or spiritual growth in individuals.
Reform Movements:
Movements that seek to change something specific about the social structure.
Resistance Movements:
Those who seek to prevent or undo change to the social structure.
Resource Mobilization Theory:
A theory that explains social movements’ success in terms of their ability to acquire resources and mobilize individuals.
Revolutionary Movements:
Movements that seek to completely change every aspect of society.
Social Change:
The change in a society created through social movements as well as through external factors like environmental shifts or technological innovations.
Social Movement:
A purposeful organized group hoping to work toward a common social goal.
Social Movement Industry:
The collection of the social movement organizations that are striving toward similar goals.
Social Movement Organization:
A single social movement group.
Social Movement Sector:
The multiple social movement industries in a society, even if they have widely varying constituents and goals.
Value-Added Theory:
A functionalist perspective theory that posits that several preconditions must be in place for collective behavior to occur.
