Exam 16: Collective Behavior, Social Movements, and Social Change.

Define mass behavior and outline the most frequent types of this behavior.

Discuss the relative deprivation theory.

The first environmental organization in the U.S. was

Some emergent norms are __________, that is, they give people a shared conviction that they may disregard ordinary rules such as waiting in line, taking turns, or treating a speaker courteously.

Sociologists using the __________ approach seek to determine how individuals in a given collectivity develop an understanding of what is going on, how they construe these activities, and what type of behaviors are involved.

Sociologist __________ asserted that fashion serves mainly to institutionalize conspicuous consumption among the wealthy.

Based on sociologist Neil Smelser's value-added theory, movements go through six different stages. These steps are necessary for the development of a social movement.

Which of the following is not a type of social movement theory?

Applying the convergence theory in his study of a lynch mob, social psychologist Hadley Cantril found that __________

Three major factors contribute to the likelihood that collective behavior will occur. Which of the following factors is not identified as contributing to collective behavior occurring?

A(n) __________ is a form of crowd behavior that occurs when a large number of people react to a real or perceived threat with strong emotions and self-destructive behavior.

Love Canal residents were engaging in __________ behavior when they called attention to their problems with the chemical dump site by staging a protest in which they "burned in effigy" the governor and the health commissioner to emphasize their displeasure with the lack of response from these public officials.

__________ theory focuses on the ability of members of a social movement to acquire resources and mobilize people in order to advance their cause.

According to the contagion theory, which of the following statements is valid?

Resource mobilization theory is based on the assumption that a social movement is an interactive, symbolically defined, and negotiated process that involves participants, opponents, and bystanders.

__________ argued that people are more likely to engage in antisocial behaviors in a crowd because they are anonymous and feel invulnerable.

A(n) __________ is a number of people who share an interest in a specific idea or issue but who are not in one another's immediate vicinity.

__________ focuses on the social-psychological aspects of collective behavior; it attempts to explain how moods, attitudes, and behavior are communicated rapidly and why they are accepted by others.

Identify the stages in social movements and explain why social movements may be an important source of social change.

China's economy is growing but the energy needed to fuel the economy derives from coal which is one of the dirtiest sources of energy.