Social Change and Collective Behavior

An alteration in society’s makeup or norms that occur when members adapt new behaviors

• Social Experiments

• Social Change

• Collective Behavior

• Social Justice Warriors

The only thing constant is:

• Consistency

• Change

• Death

• Life

Steps leading to societal changes:

• Procedural Steps

• Social Processes

• Social Status

• Social Change

People learning the Earth is round would be an example of:

• Diffusion

• Technology

• Discovery

• Invention

People in the US listening to songs from Australia would be an example of:

• Diffusion

• Technology

• Discovery

• Invention

The creation of phones/cars would be an example of:

• Diffusion

• Social Changes

• Discovery

• Invention

After an earthquake, the government and people around the country go to help the city:

• Social Change

• Equilibrium

• Mass Hysteria

• Collective Behavior

Instant behavior of people reacting to a stimuli

• Collective Change

• Collective Behavior

• Social Change

• Collective Attitude

Match the following

• Urban Legend

• A new TikTok dance that swept the nation suddenly disappeared

• Fads

• Big Foot or the Loch Ness monster is a:

• Fashion

• People used to be amazed by phones, now they are normal to have

• Rumors

• The media speculating/lying is an example of:

• Mass Hysteria

• If people think the world is going to end, this is an example of:

Match the Following

• Acting Crowd

• A group of people listen to a guest speaker

• Expressive Crowd

• Thousands of people go watch the Nickelback Concert

• Conventional Crowd

• People stop to watch two people get in a fight then everyone leaves

• Casual Crowd

• People protest a new tax law at the state capital