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| Any activity intended to bring about social change (page 497) |
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| That follows from the formation of a group or crowd of people who take action together toward a shared goal (page 485) |
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| One of the earliest theories of collective action; suggested that individuals who joined a crowd could become "infected" by a mob mentality and lose the ability to reason (page 485) |
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| A temporary gathering of individuals, whether spontaneous or planned, who share a common focus (page 486) |
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| The dissemination of beliefs and practices from one group to another (page 502) |
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| Cultural influence caused by adopting another culture's products (page 502) |
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| The time between changes in material culture or technology and the resulting changes in the broader culture's relevant norms, values, meanings, and laws (page 498) |
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| The process by which societies lose their uniqueness, becoming increasingly similar (page 503) |
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| Elative deprivation theory |
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| A theory of social movements that focuses on the actions of oppressed groups who seek rights or opportunities already enjoyed by others in the society (page 492) |
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| A theory of collective behavior that assumes individual members of a crowd make their own decisions about behavior and that norms are created through others' acceptance or rejection of these behaviors (page 486) |
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| Interests or practices followed enthusiastically for a relatively short period of time (page 487) |
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| The widespread custom or style of behavior and appearance at a particular time or in a particular place (page 487) |
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| Marshall McLuhan's term describing the way that new communication technologies override barriers of space and time, joining together people all over the globe (page 501) |
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| The increasing connections between economic, social, and political systems all over the globe (page 502) |
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| Large groups of people engaging in similar behaviors without necessarily being in the same place (page 487) |
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| A theory of social movements that assumes people join not because of the movements' ideals, but to satisfy a psychological need to belong to something larger than themselves (page 492) |
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| A term encompassing the forms of social organization that characterize industrialized societies, including the decline of tradition, an increase in individualism, and a belief in progress, technology, and science (page 503) |
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| A term encompassing the forms of social organization characteristic of postindustrial societies, including a focus on the production and management of information and skepticism of science and technology (page 503) |
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| Term describing efforts to promote forward-thinking social change (page 498) |
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| A type of social dilemma in which individuals incur the cost to contribute to a collective resource, though they may never benefit from that resource (page 489) |
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| Term describing resistance to particular social changes, efforts to maintain the status quo, or attempts to reestablish an earlier form of social order (page 497) |
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| Resource mobilization theory |
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| A theory of social movements that focuses on the practical constraints that help or hinder social movements' action (page 492) |
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| Continuous disorderly behavior by a group of people that disturbs the peace and is directed toward other people and/or property (page 487) |
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| The transformation of a culture over time (page 484) |
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| A situation in which behavior that is rational for the individual can, when practiced by many people, lead to collective disaster (page 487) |
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| Any social groups with leadership, organization, and an ideological commitment to promote or resist social change (page 489) |
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| Technological determinism |
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| A theory of social change that assumes changes in technology drive changes in society, rather than vice versa (page 498) |
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| A particular type of social dilemma in which many individuals' overexploitation of a public resource depletes or degrades that common resource (page 488) |
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| A community of people linked by their consumption of the same digital media (page 500) |
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