Collective Behavior and Social Movements

Flashcards for vocabulary review based on lecture notes about collective behavior and social movements.

Acting Crowds

Crowds of people who are focused on a specific action or goal.

Alternative Movements

Social movements that limit themselves to self-improvement changes in individuals.

Assembling Perspective

A theory that credits individuals in crowds as behaving as rational thinkers and views crowds as engaging in purposeful behavior and collective action.

Casual Crowds

People who share close proximity without really interacting.

Collective Behavior

A noninstitutionalized activity in which several people voluntarily engage.

Conventional Crowds

People who come together for a regularly scheduled event.

Crowd

A fairly large number of people who share close proximity.

Crowdsourcing

The process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people.

Diagnostic Framing

A social problem that is stated in a clear, easily understood manner.

Emergent Norm Theory

A perspective that emphasizes the importance of social norms in crowd behavior.

Expressive Crowds

Crowds who share opportunities to express emotions.

Flash Mob

A large group of people who gather together in a spontaneous activity that lasts a limited amount of time.

Frame Alignment Process

Using bridging, amplification, extension, and transformation as an ongoing and intentional means of recruiting participants to a movement.

Mass

A relatively large group with a common interest, even if they may not be in close proximity.

Modernization

The process that increases the amount of specialization and differentiation of structure in societies.

Motivational Framing

A call to action.

New Social Movement Theory

A theory that attempts to explain the proliferation of postindustrial and postmodern movements that are difficult to understand using traditional social movement theories.

NGO

Nongovernmental organizations working globally for numerous humanitarian and environmental causes.

Prognostic Framing

Social movements that state a clear solution and a means of implementation.

Public

An unorganized, relatively diffuse group of people who share ideas.

Reform Movements

Movements that seek to change something specific about the social structure.

Religious/Redemptive Movements

Movements that work to promote inner change or spiritual growth in individuals.

Resistance Movements

Those who seek to prevent or undo change to the social structure.

Resource Mobilization Theory

A theory that explains social movements' success in terms of their ability to acquire resources and mobilize individuals.

Revolutionary Movements

Movements that seek to completely change every aspect of society.

Social Change

The change in a society created through social movements as well as through external factors like environmental shifts or technological innovations.

Social Movement

A purposeful organized group hoping to work toward a common social goal.

Social Movement Industry

The collection of the social movement organizations that are striving toward similar goals.

Social Movement Organization

A single social movement group.

Social Movement Sector

The multiple social movement industries in a society, even if they have widely varying constituents and goals.

Value-Added Theory

A functionalist perspective theory that posits that several preconditions must be in place for collective behavior to occur.