Social Change

A spontaneous social behavior that occurs when people try to develop common solutions to unclear situations.

• public opinion
• collective behavior
• mass hysteria
• collective preoccupations

Involving people who rarely meet or interact, yet engage in similar behavior and share an understanding of the meaning of that behavior.

• collective behavior
• public opinion
• mass hysteria
• collective preoccupations

An anxiety shared by people who can be scattered over a wide geographic area, involving irrational beliefs and ideas that spread among the population.

• mass hysteria
• collective preoccupation
• collective behavior
• public opinon

Collection of differing attitudes that members of a public have about a particular issue.

• mass hysteria
• public opinion
• collective behavior
• collective preoccupation

Alterations in various aspects of society over time.

• social movement
• social change
• sociological imagination
• dynamic sociology

Long-term conscious effort to promote or prevent social change

• social movement
• social change
• sociological imagination
• dynamic sociology

Attempting to reverse current social trends.  Suspicious and hostile towards social change.

• reactionary movements
• conservative movement
• revisionary movement
• revolutionary movement

Protecting what they see as society's prevailing values from change that they consider to be a treat to those values.

• reactionary movements
• conservative movement
• revisionary movement
• revolutionary movement

Improving or revising some part of society through social change.  Use legal actions because they support society and its structure.

• reactionary movements
• conservative movement
• revisionary movement
• revolutionary movement

Total and radical change from the existing social structure.  Mainly overthrowing governments and replacing them with new revolutionary ones.

• reactionary movements
• conservative movement
• revisionary movement
• revolutionary movement