SOCI 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Antifeminism, Halfway House, Nuclear Family
28 Jun 2018
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SOCI1001H: Introduction to Sociology 1: Critical Foundations
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017
Final Lecture - Social Change
Structure/Agency and Social Change
Social change and collective behaviour
Social Change
-The alteration, modification, or transformation of public policy, culture or social institutions over time
-May be fast or slow – meaning slow institutional change, or change that makes major changes to society
in a rapid way
Collective Behaviour
-Involves a relatively large number of people who mutually transcend, bypass or subvert established
institutional patterns, structures and/or norms
Forms of collective behaviour
-Crowds, disaster behaviour, fads and fashions, panics and crazes, rumours and gossip, publics and
public information
-None of them are group behaviours that bring about social change
-Short lived and unorganized
Crowds
- temporary groups of people in close proximity who share a common interest or focus
-Have little else in common
-Share a temporary uplifting feeling (when they come together)
-Can become dangerous
-Can turn into a riot
Disaster Behaviour
-Refers to a sudden or disruptive event that over taxes a community's resources so that outside aid is
necessary
-Fires or floods
-Technological disaster – 911, Chernobyl, Malaysia Flight
-have learned a lot about human behavior from these situations – less chaos and more working together
Fads and Fashions
-beanie babies, tamogotchis, furbies, tickle me Elmo,
-sudden movements towards the acceptance towards something
-often revolve around consumption
-don’t give rise to other things like them, just appear, quite novel, nothing lead to them and they didn’t
lead to anything else, short loved
-line of historical continuity
-fashion is longer lasting than a fad, and more widespread
-child rearing – changes over time
-fashion does not just apply to clothes, can mean architecture, language,
Panics and Crazes
-craze is an exciting mass involvement which tends to last for a relatively long period of time
ostreaking, planking, the wave, ice bucket challenge, Harlem shake, clown thing
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Document Summary
The alteration, modification, or transformation of public policy, culture or social institutions over time. May be fast or slow meaning slow institutional change, or change that makes major changes to society in a rapid way. Involves a relatively large number of people who mutually transcend, bypass or subvert established institutional patterns, structures and/or norms. Crowds, disaster behaviour, fads and fashions, panics and crazes, rumours and gossip, publics and public information. None of them are group behaviours that bring about social change. Crowds temporary groups of people in close proximity who share a common interest or focus. Share a temporary uplifting feeling (when they come together) Refers to a sudden or disruptive event that over taxes a community"s resources so that outside aid is necessary. Technological disaster 911, chernobyl, malaysia flight have learned a lot about human behavior from these situations less chaos and more working together. Panics are flights/movements away from something and crazes are movements towards something.
