SOCC03H3 Lecture Notes - Revenge Porn, Police Riot, Collective Behavior
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Most behavior in grey area involves content of behavior. Talk about a social phenomenon in terms of if it has high content of cb. Not either/or paper about whether something is cb use classic definition as point of discussion of content. Classically, public and crowd overlaps, you can only be in one crowd (one body) but can be in multiple publics. Emergent norm theory: people guided intrinsically by norms. Discredited because of assumptions that cb is no more destructive than normal behavior. Crowds are much more diverse than you think. Situations change norm with moral justification: i. e. leaving animal/children in a hot car in summer, you would break the window to save them. Sex chant: low content or no collective behavior: does not fit emergent norm theory. Media as collective behavior: depend on platform (i. e. fox, cbc yes, depends on speed/content used (twitter, etc. ) Two perspectives of riots: conservative: mobs, destructive, noble: political; see on different scales (local and national)
