SOC 101 Study Guide - Equal Rights Amendment, Hula Hoop, Bell-Bottoms

• School: ASU
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Collective behavior: activities involving a large number of people, often spontaneous, and typically in violation of established social norms. Social movements: organized activities that encourage or discourage social change. Little sense of unity compared to social groups whose members often share a common identity. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actuality. Alternative: least threatening since only limited change is sought for a limited number of members. Reformative: limited change that targets all members of society. Revolutionary: the most severe and far-reaching consequences, striving for basic transformation of society. Technology and social change: technology: cultural information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires. Technological advances brought striking changes: cultures, our patterns of socialization, social institutions, day-to-day social interactions. Panic: a form of localized collective behavior by which people react to a perceived threat or other stimulus with irrational, frantic, and often self-destructive behavior.