Exam 21: Collective Behavior and Social Movements

How did most employees of the Beverly Hills Supper Club respond to the fatal fire that occurred in 1977?

According to sociologists Alfred and Elizabeth Lee, there are seven basic techniques that are used by propagandists. One technique is to have candidates pose for photographers in jeans and a work shirt or having lunch at a fast-food restaurant. This is an example of the ________ strategy.

The stage in which a social movement has developed a bureaucracy and has formed a hierarchy of officers and leadership is the ________ stage.

Identify the five stages of an acting crowd proposed by Herbert Blumer and describe briefly what occurs in each stage.

Why does your author suggest that because we are so diverse, we are destined to live in an exciting society?

Originally, propaganda referred to a committee of the Roman Catholic Church whose assignment was the care of foreign missions; today it usually refers to information that ________.

What is the target of reformative social movements and transformative social movements?

During a riot, what term applies to participants who feel neither rage at their situation in life nor outrage when the precipitating event occurs, but see it as a chance to participate in an exciting event and loot stores?

In which stage of a social movement is a division of labor set up?

What is the role of the precipitating event as a part of the cycle of a riot?

What are the three social movements based on total social change as their objective?

A large group of people who organize to resist or promote social change, such as the organized effort of African Americans to gain civil rights in the 1960s, is classified as a ________.

Define what constitutes a moral panic. How do moral panics reflect other social issues for the particular time they occur?

In his study of crowds, what conclusion did Clark McPhail reach?

Sociologists who studied the panic following a fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club found that the majority of those employed by the supper club did not panic, but continued to help their customers or fight the fire. Sociologists use the term ________ to describe the employees' actions.

A social movement qualifying as a transformative social movement that is based on the prophecy of coming calamity is called a(n) ________ social movement.

According to Blumer, what are the five stages that precede the development of an acting crowd?

One social movement, referred to as a cargo cult, was organized by the Melanesians about 100 years ago and was based on the revelations of their prophets. What was the result of this movement?

Charles Mackay noticed that country folk, who are ordinarily reasonable people, sometimes did "disgraceful and violent things" when they formed a crowd. What explanation did Mackay propose for this kind of behavior?

Propaganda is actually a neutral term first used in a religious context.