SOCPSY 2M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gustave Le Bon, Collective Behavior, Symbolic Interactionism
17 Apr 2017
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Socpsy 2m03 | multidisciplinary of social psychology | co1 | kathleen steeves. Collective action: a criticism of symbolic interactionism is that the lens is not wide enough to evaluate broader works, there are two types of collective action, collective behaviour, social movements. Focused on within tutorial and through the reading. Collective behaviour: collective behaviour: spontaneous activity group activity one engages in to challenge norms and work toward joint response in an ambiguous situation, gustave lebon the pioneer of collection behaviour. Group mind one mind in a crowd. Norms emerge as the group interacts and they begin to converge which corresponds to emergent norm theory. The situation can remain ambitious until one de nes the situation and the norms: turner and killian emergent norm theory, sherif"s study of light (auto-kinetic study) In a dark room the subjects were asked to measure the distance of light movement individually and within group.
