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

Contrast the five major types of social movements in terms of the types and extent of change each seeks to produce.

Sociologists McPhail and Wohlstein added __________ crowds to the four types of crowds identified by Blumer. These types of crowds engage in activities intended to achieve specific political goals.

Describe the key assumptions of the resource mobilization theory.

Discuss the value-added theory of social movements, describing each condition that adds to the likelihood that a social movement will develop.

__________ is an organized group that acts consciously to promote or resist change through collective action. It tends to be long lasting, is organized, and has specific goals or purposes.

The most frequent types of __________ behavior are rumors, gossip, mass hysteria, public opinion, fashions, and fads.

Efforts to oppose school integration, civil rights and affirmative action legislation, and domestic partnership initiatives are all actions taken by __________ movements.

"New Age" movements today and the Women's Christian Temperance movement of the past are both examples of __________ movements.

Sociologist John Lofland states that different forms of collective behavior can be distinguished by the feelings that are expressed and perceived. He terms these the __________.

Collective behavior is very contemporary; it began with the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s.

__________ refer(s) to rumors about the personal lives of individuals.

The loss of property and life that resulted from Hurricane Katrina can properly be termed a natural disaster.

Discuss the perspectives of Simmel, Veblen, Bourdieu, and Blumer on the relationship between fashion and social class.

The looting and other behavior that took place in Los Angeles after the Rodney King trial and celebrations that turn violent after some sporting events are both examples of __________.

The perspective of __________ suggests that people with similar attributes find a collectivity of like-minded persons with whom they can express their underlying personal tendencies.

__________ theory emphasizes the importance of social norms in shaping crowd behavior.

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

Contagion theory holds that_____________________.

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 is based on the assumption that participants in social movements make rational decisions about goals and actions and must have some degree of economic and political resources to make the movement a success.