SOCI 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Collective Behavior, Hillary Clinton, Sigmund Freud

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 3110
• Professor: Timothy Mc Cauley

Document Summary

Agenda: why study collective behaviour, collective influences on the individual. Collective behaviours forms of social behaviour in which usual conventions sees to use social action, and people collectively transcend, bypass, or subvert established institutional patterns of structures. The established institutional patterns of structures hold the society together. (cid:862)the (cid:449)hole is greater tha(cid:374) the su(cid:373) of its parts(cid:863) durkheim. Society is a separate entity, acting upon the individual. It has patterns and structures which we all observe and operate with. The collective has power as a whole. In collective behaviours and social movements, there is an effort to change the system somehow: collective behaviours are short lived, they are in the moment and are spontaneous, social movements have more structure, planning, etc. Some of these collective behaviours and social movements are for the social good, and betterment, whereas others are not actually for the good.