SOCC03H3 Lecture Notes - Social Forces, Flash Mob, Collective Behavior
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Relatively spontaneous unstructured extra institutional behaviour of a fairly large number of individuals. No, because it is a conventional behaviour, there is nothing really spontaneous, you are part of a crowd and a group but it is not collective behaviour. What happens if there is an accident, and people ran from their car, this would be collective behaviour. This is spontaneous, there is a type of structure to it, the structure is often time chaos, it can be institutionalize and there can be institutional responses. One of the interesting thing about collective behaviour is the spontaneousness, the fact that it erupts in comparison to everyday behaviour. Most behaviour is not classic collective behaviour. Difference between conventional behaviour and collective behaciour is a matter of degree. A lot of everyday behaviour falls in a sort of grey area, yes our day is taken up by usually everyday behaviour and there is collective behaviour.
