Sociology 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Resource Mobilization, Relative Deprivation, Game Theory
18 Jun 2012
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Social movements: a large group of people trying to being about or resist social change. Maybe concerned with values or morals; or with economic issues. Occurs when a large number of people do not accept some of the prevailing values, norms, or leaders of a society. Advocate or engage in activities that are less institutionalized. Blumer and social contagion: the relatively rapid, unwitting, and non-rational dissemination of a moral, impulse or form of conduct. Usually happens when something has disturbed the established ways in which people are accustomed to doing things. An explanation of crowd behaviour that stresses diversity of membership but a perception of consensus, which leads to a new norm expressing the apparent will of the crowd. Social breakdown: an approach to collective behaviour that argues that social unrest occurs when established institutions are disrupted or weakened. Relative deprivation: a gap between what they believe they have a right to receive what they actually receive.
