SOC-2010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Collective Behavior, Mass Hysteria, Cherry Picking
30 Dec 2017
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Chapter 21 collective behavior and social movements. Collective mind people swept up by any suggestion. Tendency of people in a crowd to feel, think and act in extraordinary ways. Circular reaction term for back and forth communications among members of a crowd whereby a collective impulse is transmitted. Acting crown an exciting group that moves towards a goal. Minimax strategy humans try to minimize their costs and maximize our rewards. The fewer the costs and the more rewards, the more likely we are to do it. Emergent norms for the idea that people develop new norms to cope with a new situation; used to explain crowd behavior. Forms of collective behavior: riots a violent crowd behavior directed at people and property. the deprived participate. Precipitating event: rumors unverified information that one person passes to another. Arise in a situation of ambiguity but go away from fact.
