Exam 23: A: Collective Behaviour and Social Movements

The "coalescence" of a social movement includes its efforts to "go public."

Convergence theory suggests crowd behavior comes from the people who join the crowd.

Social movements need resources,including members,in order to succeed.

We can expect to see international social movements in the future.

Local problems in Afghanistan have no implications for the rest of the world.

Social movements rarely bring about significant social change.

Every social movement makes a claim about how the world should be.

A major oil spill from a ship would be an example of a "natural disaster."

Culture theory would argue that a photograph or some other symbol often serves as the rallying point for forming a social movement

In industrial societies,traditional style gives way to changing fashion.

People sitting on a beach are one example of a casual crowd.

Collective behavior is generally easy to explain.

William Kornhauser's mass-society theory claims that social movements are personal as much as political in that they offer people a sense of meaning and purpose.

Disasters and mobs are both examples of collective behavior.

Whatever the goal of a social movement,there will always be people who oppose its efforts.

Only a handful of actual mob lynchings in the United States have ever been documented.

One type of crowd can easily change into another type.

To a passing observer,all types of collective behavior appear very much the same.

Contagion theory was proposed by Gustave Le Bon.

"New social movements" tend to be about "bread-and-butter" economic issues.