Learning Goals: to consider the idea of mobs and to work on our formal writing skills
1. Watch this video and think about why the people are acting in this particular fashion:
1. Watch this video and think about why the people are acting in this particular fashion:
Collective behaviour: social behaviour by a large group that does not reflect existing rules, institutions, and structures of society
-> looking to achieve a goal or outcome
-> usually spontaneous
Convergence Theory: collective action happens when like-minded people get together
-> people are acting based on their own beliefs but in a group so a level of protection is present
-> riots tend to happen if you put this theory together with the frustration-aggression theory
Rational Decision Theory: people make rational decisions about whether to participate in groups -> usually based on self-interest
-> we need to have a certain number of people to push us over the edge to join the group (called threshold)
-> if everyone is participating then lack of responsibility will encourage others to act
Prosocial Behaviour: groups that demonstrate empathy and care for others without regard for their own personal gain
-> not based on self-interests
Mass Public Grief: (also called collective solidarity by Emile Durkheim) grief demonstrated in public (shrines, art, candles, etc.)
2. Crowds
conventional
causal
expressive
acting crowd
mob
mass hysteria
smart mobs
3. Interviews with Ms Weir / Work Time
-> looking to achieve a goal or outcome
-> usually spontaneous
Convergence Theory: collective action happens when like-minded people get together
-> people are acting based on their own beliefs but in a group so a level of protection is present
-> riots tend to happen if you put this theory together with the frustration-aggression theory
Rational Decision Theory: people make rational decisions about whether to participate in groups -> usually based on self-interest
-> we need to have a certain number of people to push us over the edge to join the group (called threshold)
-> if everyone is participating then lack of responsibility will encourage others to act
Prosocial Behaviour: groups that demonstrate empathy and care for others without regard for their own personal gain
-> not based on self-interests
Mass Public Grief: (also called collective solidarity by Emile Durkheim) grief demonstrated in public (shrines, art, candles, etc.)
2. Crowds
conventional
causal
expressive
acting crowd
mob
mass hysteria
smart mobs
3. Interviews with Ms Weir / Work Time