Social Trends

A large group of people exhibit the same state of mental agitation.

• Emergent Norm Theory
• Convergence Theory
• Mass Hysteria
• Coalition

Collective action happens when similar people gather in the same place.

• Contagion Theory
• Risky Shift
• Emergent Norm Theory
• Convergence Theory

Members of a crowd develop a new norm to deal with an unconventional situation.

• Contagion Theory
• Emergent Norm Theory
• Contagion Theory
• Group Think

Which type of social movement involves total and radical change of the existing social structure?

• Reactionary
• Conservative
• Revisionary
• Revolutionary

idea holding that certain conditions must exist for social movements to occur

• value-added theory

• social processes

• mass hysteria

• resource-mobilization theory

theories that assume individuals in a crowd are merely responding to people around them

• convergence & contatgion

• emergent-norm & convergence

• contagion & emergent-norm

• convergence, emergent-norm, & contagion

la large number of people who do not normally interact and who do not necessarily share clearly defined norms.

• collective

• rumor

• fad

• fashion

lrefers to people who are widely scattered following common rules or responding to common stimuli.

• collective

• rumor

• dispersed collectivity

• urban legend

lwidely circulating story of questionable truth.

• rumor

• urban legend

• fad

• fashion

lmoralistic tales passed along by people who swear the stories happened to someone they know or to an acquaintance of a friend or family member.

• rumor

• fad

• fashion

• urban legend