Sociology Unit 2 Chapter 23

Activity involving a large number of people that is unplanned, often controversial, and sometimes dangerous.

A large number of people whose minimal interaction occurs in the absence of well-defined and conventional norms.

A temporary gathering of people who share a common focus of attention and who influence one another.

<p>A highly emotional crowd that pursues a violent or destructive goal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A social eruption that is highly emotional, violent, and undirected.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An early explanation of collective behavior that suggests crowds have a hypnotic influence on their members.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>Homogeneity of members 2. Similarity of emotional moods 3. Focused attention 4. Distraction from self 5. Suggestibility 6. Reciprocal stimulation 7. Selective perception</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All of the members of the crowd share a similar emotional mood.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All of the members of the crowd have their attention focused on a singular event.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Members of the crowd begin to act in ways in which they would not ordinarily behave.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Members of the crowd take suggestions from others on how they should behave.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A influences B, B influences C, C reinforces A.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sometimes people can see and hear certain things that reinforce their own points of view.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All of the members of the crowd share similar physical characteristics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Convergence theory holds that crowd behavior comes not from the crowd itself but from the particular people who join it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Emergent norm theory suggests that distinctive patterns of behavior emerge when similar interests draw people into a crowd.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Collective behavior among people spread over a wide geographic area.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unverified information that people spread informally, often by word of mouth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rumor about people's personal affairs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Widespread attitudes about controversial issues.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Information presented with the intention of shaping public opinion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A social pattern favored by a large number of people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An unconventional social pattern that people embrace briefly but enthusiastically.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of collective behavior in which people react to a threat with irrational behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of dispersed collective behavior where people react to a real or imagined event with irrational fear.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of collective behavior characterized by fear and exaggeration about a perceived threat.</p> Signup and view all the answers