Exam 21: Collective Behavior and Social Movements

The _____ set a crowd on a course of action.

Sociologists look at collective behavior as the actions of _____ people who are responding to _____ situations.

The _____ is (are) a dispersed group of people outside of a group's membership, who may or may not have an interest in the issue.

_____ means organizing and using resources-time, money, information, mailing lists, people's skills, people's emotions, smart phones, blogs, and tweets-to help a social movement succeed.

When people have enjoyed relatively good circumstances in life, and find their status and power declining, they join a social movement to protect their position, according to

What are some of the tricks of the trade of propaganda-making?

What are Blumer's five stages of an acting crowd?

The prophecy of the Melanesian Islanders' _____ was fulfilled.

De Tocqueville noted that both French and German peasants had lived in poverty, but only the French peasants overthrew their king in a revolution. The reason, de Tocqueville said, was that the living conditions of the French had been improving, while those of the Germans had not. Improved circumstances can fuel human desire for even greater advances, according to

_____ is a story with an ironic twist that sounds realistic but is false.

The target of change is _____ for transnational and metaformative social movements.

A prophecy of impending calamity is involved in a(n)

Just outside the third circle of members, and blending into it, is the _____ public.

Turner and Killian (1987) speak of emergent norms as

Most people seem to join social movements

The efforts people make to minimize their costs and maximize their rewards is referred to as

What kinds of participants in a crowd did Turner and Killian (1987) identify?

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

When a role is stretched to include activities that were not originally part of that role, this is called

_____ is back-and-forth communication among members of a crowd whereby a collective impulse is transmitted.