Deck 11: Collective Behavior

Question 1

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

A)People break off into a series of smaller groups.
B)People form lines to access varies facilities.
C)People develop arcs and circles around speakers.
D)All of the above are typical behaviors.

Answer 1

All of the above are typical behaviors.

Question 2

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

A)storytelling
B)collective behavior
C)collective emotion
D)Framing

Answer 2

storytelling

Question 3

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?

A)ego-involved participant
B)concerned participant
C)insecure participant
D)curiosity seeker

Answer 3

ego-involved participant

Question 4

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?

A)lack of structural conduciveness
B)lack of structural strain
C)lack of generalized belief
D)action of social control

Question 5

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

A)emergent norm theory
B)value-added theory
C)resource mobilization theory
D)mass hysteria theory

Question 6

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

A)routine dispersal
B)emergency dispersal
C)coerced dispersal
D)active dispersal

Question 7

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

A)the Russian Revolution
B)The French Revolution
C)WWII
D)the Chinese Revolution

Question 8

According to Blumer's theory of circular reaction,when do individuals in crowds start to lose control and act without much rationality?

A)During the milling phase when individuals are encouraged to act out against authorities.
B)During the interpretation phase when individuals are encouraged to act out against authorities.
C)During the interpretation phase when individuals lose their ability to communicate about appropriate behavior.
D)During the milling phase when individuals lose their ability to communicate about appropriate behavior.

Question 9

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

A)social action.
B)collective action.
C)social movement.
D)collective movement.

Question 10

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

A)panic
B)craze
C)hostile outburst
D)norm-oriented social movement

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

Which theorist is most associated with mass hysteria theory?

A)Carl Couch
B)Herbert Blumer
C)Neil Smelser
D)Gustave LeBon

Question 15

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

A)social dilemma.
B)free rider problem.
C)group conformity.
D)mass hysteria.

Question 16

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?

A)independent instruction
B)interdependent instruction
C)organizational instruction
D)interactional instruction

Question 17

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

A)Her structural position.
B)Her concern over a social condition in society.
C)Her being asked to go to the event.
D)Her access to resources.

Question 18

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?

A)political process theory
B)value-added theory
C)resource mobilization theory
D)all of the above

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

A)a social dilemma
B)the free rider problem
C)group conformity
D)mass hysteria

Question 21

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

A)ego-involved participant
B)concerned participant
C)insecure participant
D)curiosity seeker