SOCC03H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Collective Behavior, The Stereotypes, Rationality
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Cb is relatively spontaneous, unstructured, extra-institutional behaviour of a fairly large number of individuals. Extra-institutional: behavior of this type deviates from the established, normative, institutionalized patterns of everyday life. Cb operates in situations where there are no or few, adequate, clear cut definition fail to determine participants" behavior. Conventional is more inhibited, less spontaneous, less changeable and more structured, long lived and more stabled. It is structured, organized, planned, predictable, enduring, stable, institutionalized, normative, and familiar. Cb is relatively unconventional, that it violates the norm of mainstream culture. Cb may arise because traditional norms are in conflict with certain desired values in a specific situation. They don"t deviate norms as they"re not threatening social order. Cb is individuals acting with and in relation to one another. Individual behaviour- someone does something uniquely on their own, without being directly influenced by others to do it, and does not talk about it with others.
