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    The document discusses collective behavior and social movements. It defines collective behavior as non-routine activities involving large groups of people that violate social norms, such as mass panic, riots, and revolutions. It also discusses crowd behavior, mass hysteria, crazes, and how functionalists view these phenomena. The document contrasts collective behavior with social movements, noting that social movements are longer lasting, purposeful, goal-oriented, and require more structure and organization to mobilize large numbers of people and create social change.

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    The document discusses collective behavior and social movements. It defines collective behavior as non-routine activities involving large groups of people that violate social norms, such as mass panic, riots, and revolutions. It also discusses crowd behavior, mass hysteria, crazes, and how functionalists view these phenomena. The document contrasts collective behavior with social movements, noting that social movements are longer lasting, purposeful, goal-oriented, and require more structure and organization to mobilize large numbers of people and create social change.

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    Principles of Sociology

    SOC 103
    Final (6)
    Collective Behavior and Social Movements

    • Collective behavior: large numbers of people


    engaging in non-routine activities that violate
    social expectations. The label “collective
    behavior” has been applied to everything
    from sudden shifts in fashion or public opinion
    to mass panic, riots, and revolutions.
    Collective Behavior and Social Movements

    • Every so often, the media report episodes of


    “collective madness.” For no apparent reason, large
    numbers of people stop exercising critical judgment
    and self-control. Unconventional thinking and
    behavior may infect groups, towns, even whole
    nations, becoming an epidemic.
    • When the contagious element is fear or anxiety, the
    result is called mass hysteria. When the contagion
    involves wild enthusiasm about some person, object,
    or activity, the result is called a craze.
    Collective Behavior and Social Movements

    • Functionalists see mass hysterias and crazes as


    collective responses to a breakdown in social order.
    They occur when large numbers of people are
    troubled but not sure why or what to do about it.
    They become irrational in the sense that they are
    not aware of the real reason for their distress and
    their behavior is not aimed at the actual source of
    the problem. Their bizarre behavior can be seen as
    an unconscious attempt to solve undefined and
    unnamed problems.
    Collective Behavior and Social Movements

    • Crowd is a neutral term that refers to a


    collection of people who come together on a
    temporary basis. Mob is a loaded term that
    refers to a “disorderly, riotous, or lawless
    crowed of people.” The word “mob” comes
    from the French for “mobilization” and dates
    to the French Revolution.
    Collective Behavior and Social Movements

    • A social movement is the (more or less)


    organized effort of a large number of people
    to produce some social change. Examples
    from recent American history are the civil
    rights movement, the women’s movement,
    the peace movement, the environmental
    movement, the movement to ban nuclear
    weapons.
    Collective Behavior and Social Movements

    • On the surface, social movements resemble


    collective behavior. Although they are
    nonviolent, protest demonstrations may seem
    as spontaneous, unstructured and emotional
    as a riot.
    Collective Behavior and Social Movements
    But social movements differ from collective behavior in four important ways:

    (1) Collective behavior is transitory. A riot ignites, spreads, then burns itself out
    in a few hours or at most a few days. Social movements are longer lasting.
    (2) Mass hysteria, crazes, and riots are spontaneous and unplanned. Social
    movements are purposeful and goal-oriented.
    (3) Collective behavior is more or less free-form. Social movements are more
    structured. To mobilize hundreds of thousands of people for
    demonstrations, as happened in China (and elsewhere) in 1989, requires
    organization.
    (4) Collective behavior may involve a small number of people, social
    movements involve large numbers.

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