Exam 11: Collective Behavior

Research on crowd behaviors generally shows that the interactions in this vignette are pretty typical of most rallies and protests.

Group processes research shows that coalitions are natural product of individuals faced with large power disparities.

The vast majority of protests and other collective events have which kind of dispersal?

Guilford went to a protest against the school's smoking policy because he truly believed that it was wrong and should be changed.He had been a leader in the anti-smoking group for a number of years prior to the march.According to Turner and Killian,which kind of participant is he?

Which of the following are typical behaviors at a large protest march?

The March for Life protest against abortion is probably best described as a

Steve turned to the people around him for help deciding how to act at a local protest.According to perception control theory,what form of perception control is he using?

What is the best predictor of an individual participating in a march or a riot?

The use of ____________ is important to the forming of collective memories?

Following Smelser's value-added theory,why wouldn't we expect a poor,third-world nation based on a barter economy to develop mass hysteria over stock market problems like the U.S.did in the 1920s?

According to Smelser's value-added theory,what kind of collective behavior was the American stock market crash in 1929?

Which of the following theories of collective behavior is most likely to incorporate larger social-structural conditions in predicting the development of a social movement?

Research on crowd and protest behaviors has generally supported LeBon and other scholars from the mass hysteria tradition.

According to Turner and Killian,which kind of participant was Reba?

Most protest marches in the U.S.include relatively large groups of people,numbering in the hundreds of thousands.

Gustave LeBon's book,"The Crowd" is based on observations of which of the following events?

Public radio,radio stations that rely,in part,on listener support to stay in business,run the risk of what problem?

Authorities explained students' behavior at the "Stairway to the Stars" concert using which theory?

Which theorist is most associated with mass hysteria theory?

The debate as to whether to stop and look at an accident while driving by,possibly slowing down the traffic behind you,is an example of a