Key Terms Chapter 21: Social Movements and Social Change
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Acting Crowds | crowds of people who are focused on a specific action or goal | ||||
Alternative Movements | social movements that limit themselves to self-improvement changes in individuals | ||||
Assembling Perspective | a theory that credits individuals in crowds as behaving as rational thinkers and views crowds as engaging in purposeful behavior and collective action | ||||
Casual Crowds | people who share close proximity without really interacting | ||||
Collective Behavior | a noninstitutionalized activity in which several people voluntarily engage | ||||
Conventional Crowds | people who come together for a regularly scheduled event | ||||
Crowd | a fairly large number of people who share close proximity | ||||
Crowdsourcing | the process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people | ||||
Diagnostic Framing | a social problem that is stated in a clear, easily understood manner | ||||
Emergent Norm Theory | a perspective that emphasizes the importance of social norms in crowd behavior | ||||
Expressive Crowds | crowds who share opportunities to express emotions | ||||
Flash Mob | a large group of people who gather together in a spontaneous activity that lasts a limited amount of time | ||||
Frame Alignment Process | using bridging, amplification, extension, and transformation as an ongoing and intentional means of recruiting participants to a movement | ||||
Mass | a relatively large group with a common interest, even if they may not be in close proximity | ||||
Modernization | the process that increases the amount of specialization and differentiation of structure in societies | ||||
Motivational Framing | a call to action | ||||
New Social Movement Theory | a theory that attempts to explain the proliferation of postindustrial and postmodern movements that are difficult to understand using traditional social movement theories | ||||
NGO | nongovernmental organizations working globally for numerous humanitarian and environmental causes | ||||
Prognostic Framing | social movements that state a clear solution and a means of implementation | ||||
Public | an unorganized, relatively diffuse group of people who share ideas | ||||
Reform Movements | movements that seek to change something specific about the social structure | ||||
Religious/Redemptive Movements | movements that work to promote inner change or spiritual growth in individuals | ||||
Resistance Movements | those who seek to prevent or undo change to the social structure | ||||
Resource Mobilization Theory | a theory that explains social movements’ success in terms of their ability to acquire resources and mobilize individuals | ||||
Revolutionary Movements | movements that seek to completely change every aspect of society | ||||
Social Change | the change in a society created through social movements as well as through external factors like environmental shifts or technological innovations | ||||
Social Movement | a purposeful organized group hoping to work toward a common social goal | ||||
Social Movement Industry | the collection of the social movement organizations that are striving toward similar goals | ||||
Social Movement Organization | a single social movement group | ||||
Social Movement Sector | the multiple social movement industries in a society, even if they have widely varying constituents and goals | ||||
Value-added Theory | a functionalist perspective theory that posits that several preconditions must be in place for collective behavior to occur |