2. Collective Behavior Micro Macro Origins of collective behavior Complexity of collective behavior Consequences for society How individuals come to participate in collective behavior What individuals do Individual consequences
3. Collective Behavior Gatherings “Two or more persons present at one time in a public place…not synonymous with collective behavior but provide circumstances in which it may occur.”
4. Collective Behavior Demonstrations “Gatherings consisting primarily though not exclusively of individual and/or collective behaviors of protest or celebration.”
5. Collective Behavior Riots “Gatherings or demonstrations consisting primarily but not exclusively of individual and/or collective violence against person or property.”
6. Collective Behavior Behaviors within gatherings Milling Common focus Collective locomotion Queuing Collective vocalization
7. Collective Behavior Behaviors within demonstrations Political demonstrations Advocacy or protest of some principle, actor or action
11. Social Movements Most movements have inconspicuous beginnings We remember the causes and motivations for the movements, but rarely the “spark” that sets it off
12. Social Movements Masses alone do not form movements Protests dissolve without infrastructure When the infrastructure dies, so does the protest
13. Social Movements Growth of a preexisting communications network that is… Cooptable to the ideas of the new movement Series of crises that galvanize into action people involved in a cooptable movement and/or Subsequent organizing effort to weld the spontaneous groups into a movement
14. Civil Rights Movement Rosa Parks & lunch counter sit-in Well establishing preexisting communications network Church Leaders
15. Women’s Liberation Movement Women are not well organized Lack of well-established communications network required one or more organizes to put the wheels in motion National Organization for Women & smaller groups Organizers
16. Arab Spring Since December 18, 2010… Yemen Egypt Tunisia Kuwait Lebanon Israel Libya Bahrain Syria Mauritania Sudan Iraq Oman Jordan Algeria Western Sahara Morocco Saudi Arabia
17. Occupy Wall Street “Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The only thing we all have in common is that we are the 99% that will no longer tolerate the greet and corruption of the 1%.”
