SOCC44 Collective Behaviour Lecture 4 2nd October, 2013 Midterm 1 ...
SOCC44 Collective Behaviour Lecture 4 2nd October, 2013 Midterm 1. Goode Chapter 1 to page 38 2. Chapter 2 to page 73 3. Chapter 3 4. Locher Midterm is 5-8 Short Answer Questions (some shorter than others) Very specific questions, feel free to write in first person Cover all lectures and readings 1. Define Collective behaviour, spontaneous, unstructures, institutional. Second part going to give a scenario and ask if the scenario is collective behaviour or more specifically if it has a high contact of collective behaviour. Collective Behaviour - Relatively spontaneous unstructured extra institutional behaviour of a fairly large number of individuals. - It is not a really specific definition - It is relatively spontaneous and unstructured - For example, is the collection of people in a classroom collective behaviour? No it is not. Is driving collectively on a highway collective behaviour? No, because it is a conventional behaviour, there is nothing really spontaneous, you are part of a crowd and a group but it is not collective behaviour. What happens if there is an accident, and people ran from their car, this would be collective behaviour. This is spontaneous, there is a type of structure to it, the structure is often time chaos, it can be institutionalize and there can be institutional responses. - One of the interesting thing about collective behaviour is the spontaneousness, the fact that it erupts in comparison to everyday behaviour - Most behaviour is not classic collective behaviour - Difference between conventional behaviour and collective behaciour is a matter of degree. Collective behaviour is becoming a grey area - A lot of everyday behaviour falls in a sort of grey area, yes our day is taken up by usually everyday behaviour and there is collective behaviour. But a great deal of our behaviour is in a sort of grey area. It is this grey area that interests us, and tells us things about social forces, about media, technology and so on. - This is particularly true because of technology. Technology has changed people’s conception of space and time. - There is a lot of things with digital media, and a sense of consciousness has change concerning space and time.
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Technology has changed our consciousness and challenges some of our collective behaviour
2. Describe the public and crowd distinction, this includes four different types of crowds and then secondly going to ask how this distinction, public and crowd in terms of physical proximity how that distinction is blurred. How crowds no longer has to rely on physical proximity. For example acting crowd, best example is cyber bullying. The Public and the Crowd (Tarde) p. 21 - There is a difference between the public and crowd - The public is scattered and diffuse only connected through a common interest - The crowd compact, members are in close physical proximity - Traditionally there are four types of crowds - Casual- people who just happen to be in the same place at the same time - Conventional- are in close proximity but they tend to have a common purpose. A lecture for example - Expressive- this is like conventional but expressive goes further and instead of having a common purpose and being in spatial proximity and having a emotional connection to the crow. An example is a concert. - Acting- this is a crowd that takes on physical activity, often it is rioting or some sort of organized action. Often a mob kinds of activity. - With technology, public and crowd are creating hybrid form of collection. - The public and the mass can act as a crowd through social media, this is due to technology. You don’t physically have to be in a crowd - Technology has expanded the possibility for agency and the possibility for action to people who aren’t physically connected. Actions has now been exploded beyond physical boundaries. - This has changed for several years, can be because of twitter or a little bit before
3. You should know names and brief description of the five concepts. May ask which concepts are valid and still useful. May zero in on specific theory and ask question on it. Manic crowd or convergent theory. Convergent theory, transformation theory, contagion theory, emergent norm, value added theory.
4. Ask question about riot, what is a riot and the four different types of riots. Then going to give a scenario and story and be able to say if it is a riot or not. Will have to sit and think of the scenario. What is a Riot? - there is generally two extreme views - the conservative stereotyoe that arrive is a terms that involves large scale uncontrolled disorder and violence. This is a distorted mob view - The violence that went on at the G20 summit in Toronto is a riot. But what went on doesn’t really fit the definition of a riot. - There is also a type of stereotype called the noble protestor stereotype. That riots are by their nature political that fight against injustice, oppression and exploitation. - Generally speaking it has three general criteria - 1. Some level of violence and destruction - 2. Fairly sizable group of people - 3. Be fairly spontaneous and unplanned - There are view riots that have collective forms of violence. - For instance the Sammy Yatim Shooting, this fits most of the criteria of collective behaviour, but was it a riot? No, it was a highly expressive crowd but it was not violent. It was not violent because of the tender way that the police handled the protest itself, they were sensitive to let the public voice their emotion. What could have made this expressive crowd turn into a acting crowd? If someone in the crowd starts throwing rocks, of if any part of the crowd starts acting violently or any sort of disturbance it would have turned into a riot. In many of these protest there is a huge possibility of this happening. - The other thing that could have happened is the protesters could have been handled or shut down by the police. There are four types of Riots - Purposive riots: this is labour disputes - Sympolic riots: protest conditions - Revelous riot: riot of celebration, you see these in hockey riots. It is simplistic; they say that it is present during rivalry, such as between sports team. They are completely unpredictable it drive police mad on how to prepare for it. - Issueless riot:
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Technology has changed our consciousness and challenges some of our collective behaviour
2. Describe the public and crowd distinction, this includes four different types of crowds and then secondly going to ask how this distinction, public and crowd in terms of physical proximity how that distinction is blurred. How crowds no longer has to rely on physical proximity. For example acting crowd, best example is cyber bullying. The Public and the Crowd (Tarde) p. 21 - There is a difference between the public and crowd - The public is scattered and diffuse only connected through a common interest - The crowd compact, members are in close physical proximity - Traditionally there are four types of crowds - Casual- people who just happen to be in the same place at the same time - Conventional- are in close proximity but they tend to have a common purpose. A lecture for example - Expressive- this is like conventional but expressive goes further and instead of having a common purpose and being in spatial proximity and having a emotional connection to the crow. An example is a concert. - Acting- this is a crowd that takes on physical activity, often it is rioting or some sort of organized action. Often a mob kinds of activity. - With technology, public and crowd are creating hybrid form of collection. - The public and the mass can act as a crowd through social media, this is due to technology. You don’t physically have to be in a crowd - Technology has expanded the possibility for agency and the possibility for action to people who aren’t physically connected. Actions has now been exploded beyond physical boundaries. - This has changed for several years, can be because of twitter or a little bit before
3. You should know names and brief description of the five concepts. May ask which concepts are valid and still useful. May zero in on specific theory and ask question on it. Manic crowd or convergent theory. Convergent theory, transformation theory, contagion theory, emergent norm, value added theory.
4. Ask question about riot, what is a riot and the four different types of riots. Then going to give a scenario and story and be able to say if it is a riot or not. Will have to sit and think of the scenario. What is a Riot? - there is generally two extreme views - the conservative stereotyoe that arrive is a terms that involves large scale uncontrolled disorder and violence. This is a distorted mob view - The violence that went on at the G20 summit in Toronto is a riot. But what went on doesn’t really fit the definition of a riot. - There is also a type of stereotype called the noble protestor stereotype. That riots are by their nature political that fight against injustice, oppression and exploitation. - Generally speaking it has three general criteria - 1. Some level of violence and destruction - 2. Fairly sizable group of people - 3. Be fairly spontaneous and unplanned - There are view riots that have collective forms of violence. - For instance the Sammy Yatim Shooting, this fits most of the criteria of collective behaviour, but was it a riot? No, it was a highly expressive crowd but it was not violent. It was not violent because of the tender way that the police handled the protest itself, they were sensitive to let the public voice their emotion. What could have made this expressive crowd turn into a acting crowd? If someone in the crowd starts throwing rocks, of if any part of the crowd starts acting violently or any sort of disturbance it would have turned into a riot. In many of these protest there is a huge possibility of this happening. - The other thing that could have happened is the protesters could have been handled or shut down by the police. There are four types of Riots - Purposive riots: this is labour disputes - Sympolic riots: protest conditions - Revelous riot: riot of celebration, you see these in hockey riots. It is simplistic; they say that it is present during rivalry, such as between sports team. They are completely unpredictable it drive police mad on how to prepare for it. - Issueless riot:
