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| A social position a person assumes voluntarily as a result of personal choice, merit, or direct effort |
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| Collectivities so intensely focused on a specific purpose or object that they may erput into violent or destructive behviour |
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| Movements that seek limited change in some aspect or people's behaviours |
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| A social position conferred at birth or recieved involuntarily later in life, based on ttributes over which the individual has little or no control |
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| Relatively large gatherings of people who happen to be in the same place at the same time: if they interact at all it is only briefly |
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| Nonviolent action that seeks to change a policy or law by refusing to comply with it |
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| Voluntarily, often spontaneous activity that is engaged in by a large number or people typically violates dominant group norms and values |
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| Focuses on the social-psychological aspect of collective behaviour; why behaviour is accepted by others |
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| Made up of people who specifically come together for a schedualed event and thus share a common focus |
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| Focuses on the shared emotions, goals, and beliefs many people bring to crowd behaviour |
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| A relatively large number of people who are in one another's immediate vicinity |
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| The study of social interaction that compares everyday life to a theoretical presentation |
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| Emphasizes the importance of social norms in shaping crowd behaviour |
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| Groups that provide for the opportunities for the expression of some stong emotions |
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| A temporary but wildely copied ctivity enthusiastically followed bylarge umbers of people |
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| A currently values style of behaviour, thinking, or appearance |
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| A highly structured group formed for the purpose of completing certain tasks or achieving certain goals |
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| Rumours about the personal lives of individuals |
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| A term for people's efforts tp present themselves to others in ways that are most favourable to their own interests or image |
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| A large collection of people who share an interest in a specific idea or issue but who are not in oneanother's imeadiate vicinity |
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| Collectyive behaviour that takes place when peoplerespond to the same event in much the same way |
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| A form of dispersed collective behaviour that occurs when a large number of people react with strong emotions and self-destructive behaviour |
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| The most important status a person occupies |
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| A highly emotional crowd whose members engage in, or are ready to engage in, violence against a specific target |
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| The transfer of information between persons without the use of speach |
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| A form of crowd behaviour that occurs when a large number of people react to a real; or percieved threat with strong emotions and self-destructive behaviour |
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| The immediate area surrounding a person that the person claims as private |
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| Small, less specialized group in which members engage in face-to-face, emotion-based interaction over an extended period |
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| Groups that engage in activities intended to acheive specific political goals |
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| Has physical shelter but it does not meat basic requirements of health and safety |
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| Movements seeking to bring about a total change in society |
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| Violent crowd behaviour that is fuelled by deep-seated emotions but not directly at one specific target |
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| A set of behavioural expectations associated with a given status |
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| When the expectations associated with a role are unclear |
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| A situation in which incompatible role demands are placed on a person by two or more statuses held at the same time |
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| A situation in which people disengage from social roles that have been central to their self-identity |
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| A term used to describe a group's or scoietity's definition of the way a specific role ought to be played |
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| How a person actually plays a role |
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| The strain experienced by a person when incompatible demands are built into a single status that the person occupies |
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| Unsubstaniated reports on an issue or subject |
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| A larger, more specialized group in which members engage in more interpersonal, goal-oriented relationships for a limited time |
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| A situation in which a false belief or prediction produces behaviour that makes the originally false belief come true |
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| Social Construction of Reality |
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| Process by which our perception of reality is shaped largly by the subjective meaning that we give to an experience |
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| A group that consisted of two or more people who interact frequently and share a common identity and a feeling of interdependence |
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| A set of organized beliefs or rules that establish how a sociey will attempt to meet its basic social needs |
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| The process by which people act toward or respond to other people |
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| The state of being part insider and part outsider in the social structure |
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| A organized group that acts consciously to promote or resist change through collective action |
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| A groups ability to maintain itself in the face of obstactles |
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| The stable pattern of social relationships that exist within a particular group or society |
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| A socially defined position in a group or society characterized by certain expectatios, rights, and duties |
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| All the statuses that person occupies at a given time |
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| Material signs that inform others of a persons specific status |
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| Any physical or social attribute or sign that devalues a person's social identity that it disqualifies that person from full social accpetance |
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| The calculated unlawful use of physical force or threats of violence against persons or property in order to intimidate or coerce a government, organization, or individual for the purpose of gaining some political, religious, economic, or social objective |
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