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| Collective Behavior | Relatively spontaneous social behavior that occurs when people try to develop common solutions to unclear situations. |
| Collectivity | Collection of people who have limited interaction with each other and who do not share clearly defined, conventional norms. |
| Conservative Movements | social movements that try to protect from change what they see as society's prevailing values. |
| Contagion Theory | Theory of collective behavior proposed by Gustave LeBon in which the hypnotic power of a crowd is said to encourage people to give up their individuality to the stronger pull of the group. Individuals then become anonymous, with no will power or sense of responsibility. |
| Crowd | Temporary collection of people who are in close enough proximity to interact. |
| Emergent-Norm Theory | Theory of collective behavior proposed by Ralph Turner and Lewis Killian. According to this theory, the people in a crowd are often faced with a situation in which traditional norms do not apply. Gradually, new norms emerge when a leader initiates new behavior. |
| Fad | Unconventional though or action that a large number of people are interested in for a very short period of time. |
| Fashions | Enthusiastic attachment among large numbers of people for a particular style of appearance or behavior. |
| Mass Hysteria | Unfounded anxiety shared by people who are spread over a wide geographic area. |
| Mob | Emotionally charged collectivity whose members are united by a specific, often violent, goal. |
| Moral Panic | Phenomenon that occurs when people become fearful about behavior that appears to threaten society's core values. |
| Panic | Spontaneous and uncoordinated group action to escape some perceived threat. |
| Propaganda | An organized and deliberate attempt to shape public opinion. |
| Public | Group of geographically scattered people who are interested in and divided by some issue. |
| Public Opinion | Collection of differing attitudes that members of a public have about a particular issue. |
| Reactionary Movements | Social movement with a goal to reverse current social trends. |
| Relative Deprivation Theory | Theory that states that certain people have a lesser portion of social rewards compared to other people or groups. |
| Resource Mobilization | The organization and effective use of resources as essential to social movements. |
| Resource Mobilization Theory | Theory of social movements that states that even the most ill treated groups with the most just cause will not be able to bring about change without resources. |
| Revisionary Movements | Social movements that try to improve or revise some part of society through social change. |
| Revolutionary Movements | Type of social movement, the goal of which is a total and radical change of the existing social structure. |
| Riot | Crowd that erupts in generalized destructive behavior, the purpose of which is social disorder. |
| Rumor | Unverified piece of information that is spread rapidly from one person to another. |
| Social Movements | Long term conscious effort to promote or prevent social change. |
| Urban Legend | Stories that are untrue but that seem realistic and teach a lesson. |
| Value Added Theory | Theory that explains crowd behavior as a process that moves from step to step. |
