SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ernest Burgess, Collective Behavior, Social Movement Theory
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The chicago school approach to collective behaviour. Collective behaviour as existing outside f institutionalized structures. Social movements arise as a result of some type of structural or cultural breakdown or strain such as a natural disaster, rapid social change, or dramatic event. They assign an important role to the shared beliefs of participants in analyzing the emergence of social movements and other forms of collective behaviour. Interested in the creation of new forms of activity and organization. Sixth, social control may act to present the collective behaviour, perhaps by minimizing strains, or to limit the scope of the collective behaviour- actions of police, courts, etc. Relative deprivation theories were popular in the 1960s and 1970s (e. g. , davies, 1962, 1971, gurr, 1970) but they have since been strongly criticized on a number of grounds. Although feelings of relative deprivation may be present, they are not likely to generate collective action in the absence of other factors such as resources and organization.