COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR & SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Collective Behavior &
Social Movements

Collective Behavior:
Early Explanations

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The Transformation of the Individual

• How the Crowd Transforms the Individual

12• Charles Mackay

4– Herd Mentality
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Collective Behavior:
Early Explanations

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The Transformation of the Individual

• How the Crowd Transforms the Individual

12• Gustave LeBon

4– Collective Mind
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Collective Behavior:
Early Explanations

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The Transformation of the Individual

• How the Crowd Transforms the Individual

12• Robert Park

4– Circular Reaction
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Collective Behavior

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The Acting Crowd - Five Stages

• Tension or Unrest 412
• Exciting Event 5
• Milling Behavior
• Common Object
• Common Impulses

Blumer’s Model of How an
Acting Crowd Develops

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412
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Contemporary View: The

Rationality of the Crowd

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• The Minimax Strategy

• Emergent Norms — Five Kinds of
Participants

1– The Ego-Involved

2– The Concerned

– The Insecure

4– The Curious Spectators
– The Exploiters 7

Forms of Collective

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Riots 412
• Background Conditions 8
• Precipitating Event
• General Context

Forms of Collective

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Rumors 9
• Short-Lived

1• Replace Ambiguity or Uncertainty

2• Of Little Consequence

4• Pass from Person to Person

Forms of Collective

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Panics and Mass Hysteria
• The Classic Panic

12• The Occurrence of Panics

4• Not Everyone Panics
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Forms of Collective

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• Moral Panics 412
• Fads and Fashions 11
• Urban Legends

Social Movements

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• Proactive Social Movements

1• Reactive Social Movements

42• Social Movement Organizations
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Types of Social

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• Alternative Social Movements

1• Redemptive Social Movements

42• Reformative Social Movements
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Types of Social

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• Transformative Social Movements

1• Millenarian Social Movements

2• Transnational Social Movements

4• Metaformative Social Movements
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Types of Social Movements

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412
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Tactics of Social

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Levels of Membership 412
• The Inner Core
• The Committed
• The Less Committed

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Tactics of Social

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The Publics 412
• Sympathetic Public 17
• Hostile Public
• Disinterested Public

The Memberships & Publics of Social Movements

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412
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Tactics of Social

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• Relationship to Authorities

412• Other Factors
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Propaganda and the

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• Name-Calling 412
• Glittering Generality 20
• Transfer
• Testimonials

Propaganda and the

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• Plain Folks 412
• Card Stacking 21
• Bandwagon

Why People Join
Social Movements

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• Mass Society Theory 412
• Deprivation Theory 22

Relative Deprivation & Revolution

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412
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Why People Join
Social Movements

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Mass Society Theory

Deprivation Theory

1Moral Issues & Ideological Commitment

42Agent Provocateur
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Success and Failure of

Social Movements

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• Initial Unrest & Agitation
• Resource Mobilization

1• Organization

2• Institutionalization

4• Organizational Decline & Possible
Resurgence 25