The posting12, joonhee Lee

Summary

A)Collective behavior

Collective behavior is a spontaneous movement. This is not behavior with a certain value (conformity, resistance). This has the short-lived interaction and no definite ties, and the power of norms within the group is weak.
Crowd is a group of people who share a specific goal or intention. They move at their own discretion, but there are always rumors here.
Their behavior is collective behavior. These mainly appear in sporting events and concerts in modern life. The crowd is also divided into four types (causal, conventional, expressive, acting). When the intentions of the masses are violent, they become mobs. In addition, panic, mass hysteria phenomenon occurs when the group falls into fear.

(Theories of collective behavior)

1.Contagion Theory

The crowd acts as a hypnotizing roles that makes the members feel irrational and emotional. However, this has limits in that the members of all groups are not irrational, and the crowd can be dominated by individuals.

2.Convergence Theory

This theory considers the behavior of the crowd to be a requirement of the members. This also has the problem that the behavior of the crowd can be changed by a certain person.

3.Emergent-Norm Theory
New interests and norms emerge in the process of interacting with people gathered for a particular interest.

4.Crowds as "Gatherings"

this distinguishes what brings people together as a gathering from what they once gathered. They argue that independent thinking and movement are possible within a group of individuals.

B)Social movements

Social movements are large social groups of people who share interests related to social change. Modern social movements are driven by the spread of literature and the increased mobility of industrialization.

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(Social movement theories)

1.Deprivation Theory

Social movements consist of people who have been deprived of something in common.

2.Mass-Society Theory

They think that social movements are made by people who have not adapted in society.

3.Structural-Strain Theory

They suggests factors that promote the development of social movements(structural conduciveness, structural strain, growth and spread of a solution, precipitating factors, lack of social control, mobilization).

4.Resource-Mobilization Theory

This emphasizes the importance of resources for the success of social movements. Here, resources refer to all human resources(knowledge, money, media, labor, etc).

5.Political Process Theory

This theory asserts political opportunities among resources. It especially emphasizes the insurgent consciousness, organizational strength, and political opportunities as factors for the success of social movements.

6.Culture Theory

It is like expanding the two theories mentioned above. In order to successfully lead social movements, they argue that we should develop 'frame of injustice'. And try to solve the free-rider problem caused by indifference.

Opnion&Question

I think the contents of collective behavior are very important in modern society.Especially, In Korea society, the role of this is meaningful action. Recently, whenever saturday comes, people gather in seoul to protest  for now president. And I think this is both a big collective behavior and social movement. Watching the this incident, I feel that ,to change society, collective behavior and social movements also necessary component in society.

But, I could't understand completely this week reading. Especially, I'm hard to understand 'the stages in social movements' and 'Culture theory'. So, I want to friends who help my study.