Collective Behavior and Social Movements

Expanded on how crowds act, saying that people feel anonymous and less accountable in a crowd.

• Charles Mackay

• Gustave Le Bon

• Robert Park

• Some old weirdo

tendency of people in a crowd to feel, thing, and act in extraordinary ways

• Collective Behavior

• Circular Reaction

• Collective Mind

• Active Crowd

Excited group that moves toward a goal

• Acting crowd

• Milling Behavior

• Collective Behavior

• Excited Group

Actions by a group of people who bypass the usual norms governing their behavior and do something unusual

• Collective Behavior

• Circular Reaction

• Acting Crowd

• Milling Behavior

This is where people are standing or walking around in an excited environment

• Exciting Event

• Milling Behavior

• Common Impulses

• Object of Attention

At a protest against police brutality, people begin flipping cop cars. The cars would be:

• An exciting event

• Common Object of Attention

• Common Impulse

• Background of Tension

A protest at school was sparked by Mr. Moody assigning a big sociology project in the last week. This would be known as:

• An exciting event

• Common Object of Attention

• Common Impulse

• Background of Tension

As an acting crowd develops, norms rapidly change and adapt, often becoming more extreme. This would be known as

• Developing Noms

• Changing Norms

• Emergent Norms

• New Norms

In a crowd situation, the likelihood of others approving our actions doesn't impact how likely we are to do it

• True

• False

The ideas of right and wrong rarely change in an acting crowd situation

• True

• False