SOC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mancur Olson, Resource Mobilization, Collective Behavior
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Mass behavior: action that takes place in groups and diverges from social routine, but which is not organized or conscious. Large scale and organized social movements can arise from mass behavior but do not always do so. Examples: fads, boom and bust cycles (california gold rush, dutch tulip craze), riots (something that happens in crowds that leads to a diffusion of responsibility) Can look similar to collective action but if you asked what a person was doing they would not have a reason. Collective action: action that takes place in groups and differs from routine, but which also has a degree of organization and self-consciousness. There are two types, crowd and mass collective action. Crowd: physical group of people following an action. Social movement: disruptive of norms and routines; organized purposeful and institutionalized; and ongoing. Movements involve many instances of collective action.
