Exam 21: Collective Behavior and Social Movements

Discuss the factors that social movement leaders take into consideration in selecting tactics.

Because people involved in collective behavior do so anonymously and are swept up by the power of suggestion, they cannot legally be held responsible for their behavior.

A crucial factor that enables social movements to make it past the initial unrest and agitation stage is ________.

Briefly summarize relative deprivation theory and apply it to why people join social movements.

For an action to be classified as collective behavior, it must be conducted by a group of people seeking to make a change in society.

The target of a redemptive social movement is the ________, and the goal is ________.

When large numbers of people become intensely concerned, even fearful, about some behavior and their fear is out of proportion to any supposed danger it is referred to as a ________.

Gustave LeBon said people in a crowd had the tendency to feel, think, and act extraordinarily, which included a sense of anonymity, less accountability, and invincibility. What term did LeBon use to refer to this phenomenon?

An "agent provocateur" may participate in a social movement to spy on the movement or try to sabotage it.

Selene is a member of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). Based on the typologies of social movements, Selene would be considered a member of a(n) ________ social movement.

Explain the relationship between social expectations and actual social conditions.

Describe the types of social movements and discuss how they differ.

Explain how proactive and reactive social movements differ. Provide examples of each.

The term Robert Park used to explain the back-and-forth communications between members of a crowd during unrest was ________.

The primary difference between fad and fashion is the length of time the behavior is popular.

What does recent analysis of the War of the Worlds broadcast of 1938 indicate in respect to the mass hysteria that has been reported to have accompanied the broadcast?

A social movement that emphasizes world change rather than changing a condition in a specific society, such as the global women's movement, is called a transnational social movement or a ________.

The radio broadcast dramatization of War of the Worlds caused widespread panic in 1938. How did psychologist Hadley Cantril explain the panic of the masses?

What are the three levels of membership in a social movement?

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