SOC 148 Lecture Notes - Food Riot, Urban Density, Collective Action
Document Summary
Riots are the actions of crowds that we fear most. Riots are the center of what we think happens when a crowd goes crazy. Cb focus in and concentrate the lens on the specific area. Studies focus on two aspects: sociopsychological profile (what kind of people participate, what"s their state of mind when they participate; there"s all these normal people in the world and there are those people that participate in riots), psychological theory. Stigma (harder to come back from than from a disaster) Harder for a community to reorganize and move on. Have to deal w/ all the baggage that comes w/ a very political event. A riot involves a crowd motivated by a shared grievance that targets specific symbols, persons, and/or property that the crowd intends to harass, injure, or destroy. It"s the way people perceive to be a grievance. Riots, mobs, hostile outbursts fall into this idea of unlawful assembly.
