SOCC03H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Collective Behavior, Gustave Le Bon, Emotional Contagion
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Okay to write in first person for both short answers and in final essay. Goode: chapter 1 (to page 38, chapter 2 (to page 73, chapter 3. Collective behavior: relatively spontaneous, unstructured, extra-institutional, extra-normative, behavior of a fairly large number of individuals (goode, 17) Collective behavior is the relationship between self and others, and how that relationship is mediated and manifested, experienced, and regulated through a series of social, economic, culture, and technological forces. It is not just a binder between 1-2 people or a crowd with collective behavior; it is much more complicated. Often compared to normal behavior that is structured, institutionalized, and conventional, organized, planned, predictable, enduring, stable, normative and familiar. Relative to individual/parallel behavior: extrainstitutional: deviates from the established, normative, institutionalized patterns of everyday life. Collective behavior is relatively structured, but not wholly so. Somewhat different from, but not completely discontinuous with conventional institutional behavior.
