SOCI 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Antifeminism, Ridicule, Collective Behavior
6 Dec 2016
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Social change: the alteration, modification, or transformation of public policy, culture or social institutions over time. It creates inequalities, exploits people, and creates other forms of discrimination. The social structures will change, whether it is slow or fast. The structures we have today are here because of social changes we have had in the past. They change because groups of people will struggle to change them. Through human agency, groups work on these structures and challenge them to be altered over time. Change can make major or minor alterations to society. Collective behaviour: involves a relatively large number of people who mutually transcend, bypass or subvert established institutional patterns, structures and/or norms. Crowds, disaster behaviour, fads & fashions, panics & crazes, rumours & gossip, publics & public opinion. Disaster behaviour: refers to a sudden or disruptive event that over taxes a community"s resources, traditionally they have been related to nature [hurricanes, increasingly, there have been more technological disasters [airplane crashes]
