SOC 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Guerrilla Gardening, Aryan Nations, Heritage Front
5 May 2013
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Chapter 12: social change, collective behaviour, social movements. Produce new roles, rules, cultural values (bohemians, new clubs) Have unstated missions to raise status of cliques at expense of non-members. Collective behaviour when ppl come together to achieve a meaningful short-term goal that may result in social change. Crowds unorganized collections of ppl who gather temporarily for particular cause/united by common mood. Casual crowd ppl who just happen to be in same place at same time (people at shopping mall) Conventional crowd ppl who gather for structured social event. Ppl generally behave appropriate, disperse without incident. Protest crowd deliberately assembled crowd to rally support for a social movement. Expressive crowd ppl who gather intentionally to express emotions gay parades, funeral. Acting crowd ppl who gather to express anger and direct it outwardly at specific person, category of ppl, event. Riot type of acting crowd that directs it"s anger towards multiple targets, moving from one -->another in unpredictable ways.
