Exam 21: Collective Behavior and Social Movements

The distinction between a fad and a fashion is that

_____ refers to actions by a group of people who bypass the usual norms governing their behavior and do something unusual.

When people think in moral terms, choose sides, and join a social movement to do what they can to help right wrongs, this is because of

In the institutionalization stage of social movements,

A _____ social movement resists some social change.

A social movement that seeks to change people and institutions totally-to redeem them-is the _____ social movement.

ISIS is an example of a(n) _____ social movement, which seeks global change.

The NAACP is an example of a

The term _____ can be taken broadly, to refer to presenting information in an attempt to influence people; or narrowly, to refer to one-sided information used to try to influence people.

_____ is violent crowd behavior directed at people and property.

Transnational social movements focus on some condition that is

_____ refers to a crowd standing or walking around as they talk excitedly about some event.

The view that sociologists today take of crowd behavior is that it is

Cheryl strongly believed in animal rights, and joined an organization that wants to reform the ways in which society views and treats animals. The type of social movement Cheryl is part of is a

LeBon used the term _____ for the tendency of people in a crowd to feel, think, and act in extraordinary ways.