Transcript Social Movements - Net Start Class

CHAPTER 17
Collective Behavior and
Social Movements
Section 1: Collective Behavior
Section 2: Social Movements
SECTION 1
Collective Behavior
Question:
What are some examples of
the various types of
collective behavior?
SECTION 1
Collective Behavior
Crowds
(casual, conventional,
expressive, acting)
mass hysteria
fashion
Types of
Collective
Behavior
mobs
fads
rumors
riots
urban legends
panics
(moral panics)
public opinion
SECTION 2
Social Movements
Question:
What characteristics of
social movements?
SECTION 2
Social Movements
SOCIAL
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
MOVEMENTS
Type
Description and Example
Reactionary
try to prevent a type of social change and return society
to a past way of being; often use fear and violence;
example: Ku Klux Klan
Conservative
try to protect prevailing values from what are seen as
threats to those values; example: the religious right
Revisionary
try to improve some part of society through social
change; usually use legal methods and focus on a single
issue; example: women’s suffrage movement
Revolutionary
seek a total radical change of existing social structure;
overthrow existing government and replace it with their
own versions; often involve violent or illegal methods;
example: the American Revolution
CHAPTER 17
Chapter Wrap-Up
1. How do collectives differ from social groups?
2. List and describe the four types of crowds identified by
Herbert Blumer.
3. What is the difference between fads and fashions?
4. List and give examples of the four types of social
movements identified by William Bruce Cameron.
5. Why are the original goals of a social movement
sometimes swept aside during the bureaucratization stage
of the social-movement life cycle?
6. What do sociologists mean by the term relative
deprivation?
7. According to resource-mobilization theory, what kinds of
resources are needed for a social movement to be
successful?