WarmUp : Journal Entry

1. WarmUp: Journal Entry • Respond to the following scenario in your journals. Please be detailed in your response. • You are sitting in a movie theater watching a film &the film breaks. • How does the audience respond? • Why do they respond that way?

2. Chapter 17.1 Collective Behavior & Social Movements

3. Objectives • Contrast the various types of collectivities &analyze the explanations for collective behavior that have been proposed. • Identify the preconditions necessary for collective behavior to occur & explain how they build on one another.

4. Collective Behavior • the relatively spontaneous social behavior that occurs when people try to develop common solutions to unclear situations

5. Characteristics of Collectives • limited interaction • unclear norms • limited unity • group that share these characteristics known as a collectivity

6. Types of Collective Behavior Crowds Mobs Riots Panics Mass Hysteria Fashions Fads Rumors Urban Legends Public Opinion

7. Crowds • temporary gathering of people who are in close enough proximity to interact

8. Mobs • an emotionally charged collectivity whose members are united by a specific destructive or violent goal

9. Riots • collection of people who erupt into generalized destructive behavior, resulting in social disorder • less unified &focused than mobs • London Graffiti Riot

10. Panics • spontaneous & uncoordinated group action to escape some perceived threat

11. Mass Hysteria • unfounded anxiety shared by people who can be scattered over a large geographic area

12. Fashions • enthusiastic attachments among large numbers of people for particular styles of appearance or behavior

13. Fads • an unconventional object, action, or idea that a large number of people are attached to for a very short period of time

14. Rumors • unverified pieces of information that spread rapidly from one person to another

15. Urban Legends • stories that teach a lesson &seem realistic but are untrue • Urban Legends Decoded: The Hook

16. Public Opinion • collection of different attitudes that members of the public have about a particular issue

17. Explaining Collective Behavior Contagion Theory Emergent-Norm Theory Value-Added Theory

18. Contagion Theory • developed by GustaveLeBon • 1st systematic theory of collective behavior • 3factors give crowds power over individuals • numbers create anonymity of individual members • spread of emotion like epidemic • members rapidly enter state of suggestibility

19. Emergent-Norm Theory • developed by Ralph Turner &Lewis Killian • people in a crowd often faced with a situation in which traditional norms do not apply • no clear standards of behavior • new norms gradually emerge

20. Value-Added Theory • proposed by Neil Smelser • attempted to predict if collective behavior would occur &the direction it might take • taken from economic theory of the production process • 6basic preconditions for social behavior: • 1) structural conduciveness • 2) structural strain • 3) growth & spread of generalized belief • 4) precipitation factors • 5) mobilization for action • 6) social control

21. CHAPTER 17: CLASSWORK • Page 448: #2-3 • Page 455: #2-3 • Page 458: #1-10 Identifying People & Ideas • Page 458: #1-7 Understanding Main Ideas • Page 459: #1-4 Building Social Studies Skills

22. Group Activity: Collective Behavior Posters • In groups of 3, create a poster for 1of the previously discussed types of social behavior. • Be sure to include relevant facts, examples &illustrations to support your definitions.