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WarmUp: Journal Entry Respond to the following scenario in your journals. Please be detailed in your response. You are sitting in a movie theater watching a film & the film breaks. How does the audience respond? Why do they respond that way?

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Collective Behavior & Social Movements Chapter 17.1

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Objectives Contrast the various types of collectivities & analyze the explanations for collective behavior that have been proposed. Identify the preconditions necessary for collective behavior to occur & explain how they build on one another.

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Collective Behavior the relatively spontaneous social behavior that occurs when people try to develop common solutions to unclear situations

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Characteristics of Collectives limited interaction unclear norms limited unity group that share these characteristics known as a collectivity

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Types of Collective Behavior CrowdsMobs RiotsPanics Mass HysteriaFashions FadsRumors Urban LegendsPublic Opinion

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Crowds temporary gathering of people who are in close enough proximity to interact

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Mobs an emotionally charged collectivity whose members are united by a specific destructive or violent goal

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Riots collection of people who erupt into generalized destructive behavior, resulting in social disorder less unified & focused than mobs London Graffiti Riot

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Panics spontaneous & uncoordinated group action to escape some perceived threat

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Mass Hysteria unfounded anxiety shared by people who can be scattered over a large geographic area

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Fashions enthusiastic attachments among large numbers of people for particular styles of appearance or behavior

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Fads an unconventional object, action, or idea that a large number of people are attached to for a very short period of time

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Rumors unverified pieces of information that spread rapidly from one person to another

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Urban Legends stories that teach a lesson & seem realistic but are untrue Urban Legends Decoded: The Hook

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Public Opinion collection of different attitudes that members of the public have about a particular issue

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Explaining Collective Behavior Contagion Theory Emergent-Norm Theory Value-Added Theory

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Contagion Theory developed by Gustave LeBon 1 st systematic theory of collective behavior 3 factors give crowds power over individuals numbers create anonymity of individual members spread of emotion like epidemic members rapidly enter state of suggestibility

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Emergent-Norm Theory developed by Ralph Turner & Lewis Killian people in a crowd often faced with a situation in which traditional norms do not apply no clear standards of behavior new norms gradually emerge

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Value-Added Theory proposed by Neil Smelser attempted to predict if collective behavior would occur & the direction it might take taken from economic theory of the production process 6 basic preconditions for social behavior: 1) structural conduciveness 2) structural strain 3) growth & spread of generalized belief 4) precipitation factors 5) mobilization for action 6) social control

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CHAPTER 17: CLASSWORK Page 448: #2-3 Page 455: #2-3 Page 458: #1-10 Identifying People & Ideas Page 458: #1-7 Understanding Main Ideas Page 459: #1-4 Building Social Studies Skills

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Group Activity: Collective Behavior Posters In groups of 3, create a poster for 1 of the previously discussed types of social behavior. Be sure to include relevant facts, examples & illustrations to support your definitions.