Exam 13: Social Change: Collective Behaviour and Social Movements

Which of the following is an example of a reformative movement?

According to the text,in what year was the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms enacted?

Georges and several of his close friends work for Environment Canada as biologists,or teach environmental technology courses at universities and colleges.They have formed an action committee with the purpose of saving the northern tundra from diamond mining companies.What kind of social activists are they?

What kinds of crowds are movie and theatre audiences?

What type of crowd is formed when a collectivity gathers at the same place,at the same time,to pursue a common goal?

Outline four dimensions of social change.Offer examples to support your answer.

Describe in normative terms how fans are expected to behave at a hockey game.What kind of a crowd do hockey fans form?

What is a moral entrepreneur and what do they have to do with the moral panic process?

William "Bill" Whatcott is a Canadian social conservative activist who campaigns against homosexuality and abortion.According to the text,what sociological label might be applied to Mr.Whatcott in his role as activist?

Distinguish between fads and fashions,offering examples as part of your answer.

According to the text,which term refers to a shared fear underlying an impending threat that can produce a collective action?

The book discusses three types of theories of collective behaviour: contagion,convergence and emergent norm.Provide a basic description of each theory,making obvious the ways in which the theories differ from each other.How would each theory go about explaining a riot that breaks out when an unpopular speaker is supposed to give a talk at a university?

Which theory blames the individual actors and was used to examine the lynching of African Americans by poor and working-class white people in the United States?

What is a defining characteristic of gossip?

Which of the following best describes the process of "frame alignment"?

What is the end stage of the emergent norm process?

Which of the following is defined as a complex or formal organizations which identifies its goals with the preferences of a social movement or countermovement and attempts to implement these goals?

Who developed contagion theory?

Workers show up at their place of employment to find the building dark and all the doors locked.They begin to talk to each other about what might be going on.Several people think the business has gone bankrupt and the owners have left town.They decide that their only option is to vent their hostility in a public way.Some of them start to batter down the door.Others look for paint and brushes for graffiti.Still others shout instructions to various people.In terms of collective behaviour theories,what are we witnessing?

Which type of crowd behaviour was the 1994 riot at the Prison for Women in Kingston?