1. Summary
This article was about collective behavior. The term collective behavior means that social events which created spontaneously, but still that doesn't reflect 기존의 social structure. There are such things which can be represented as collective behavior.
For example, a panic in a burning theater and the rapid spread of rumors and so on.
Collective behavior has some differences compares to group behavior. First, they remained shorter as together compared to group behavior. Second, anyone can be the member of if while the group has exact boundaries compared to collective behavior.
And the last, collective behavior has less conventional norms than group behavior.
Then, why people study collective behavior? There are two big reasons.
People who study collective behavior first thought that they could predict people's behavior if they study collective behavior. And secondly, they thought that they could change elements of society if they study collective behavior.
One of the forms of collective behavior is <Crowds>. According to Blumer, there are four different types of crowds. Which are following four: casual, conventional, expressive, acting. Also, <Panic>, <Riots> and <Mass Hysteria> are included to forms of collective behaviors. <Fad> is a collective behavior form which means that something becomes popular quickly, and lose it's popularity very fast. And finally, there is <Rumors>. Rumors are spread mouth to mouth, and it gives information about what's happening, and it expresses the emotional needs of the community.
The widespread rumors are something like sexual innuendo in Disney film.
2. Interesting points
I didn't know that rumor has such various types. It says there are three different types of rumors, which are <Pipe dream rumors>, <Bogie or fear rumors>, and <Wedge-driving rumors>. I used to thought that collective behaviors are always on the good side. That's because I think collective behavior like Wikipedia is good for the social world. But according to this article, rumors are also collective behavior. A malicious rumor cannot be the good thing, so It was a new chance to think about <Collective behavior is not always a good thing>.
3. Discussion
We've been in a crowd no matter you knew that or not. If you buy clothes in a mall, you included in casual types of a crowd, and if you went to the arena for sports games, you included in expressive types of crowds. Are there any experiences that you were the member of the crowd except two of those experiences?
This article was about collective behavior. The term collective behavior means that social events which created spontaneously, but still that doesn't reflect 기존의 social structure. There are such things which can be represented as collective behavior.
For example, a panic in a burning theater and the rapid spread of rumors and so on.
Collective behavior has some differences compares to group behavior. First, they remained shorter as together compared to group behavior. Second, anyone can be the member of if while the group has exact boundaries compared to collective behavior.
And the last, collective behavior has less conventional norms than group behavior.
Then, why people study collective behavior? There are two big reasons.
People who study collective behavior first thought that they could predict people's behavior if they study collective behavior. And secondly, they thought that they could change elements of society if they study collective behavior.
One of the forms of collective behavior is <Crowds>. According to Blumer, there are four different types of crowds. Which are following four: casual, conventional, expressive, acting. Also, <Panic>, <Riots> and <Mass Hysteria> are included to forms of collective behaviors. <Fad> is a collective behavior form which means that something becomes popular quickly, and lose it's popularity very fast. And finally, there is <Rumors>. Rumors are spread mouth to mouth, and it gives information about what's happening, and it expresses the emotional needs of the community.
The widespread rumors are something like sexual innuendo in Disney film.
2. Interesting points
I didn't know that rumor has such various types. It says there are three different types of rumors, which are <Pipe dream rumors>, <Bogie or fear rumors>, and <Wedge-driving rumors>. I used to thought that collective behaviors are always on the good side. That's because I think collective behavior like Wikipedia is good for the social world. But according to this article, rumors are also collective behavior. A malicious rumor cannot be the good thing, so It was a new chance to think about <Collective behavior is not always a good thing>.
3. Discussion
We've been in a crowd no matter you knew that or not. If you buy clothes in a mall, you included in casual types of a crowd, and if you went to the arena for sports games, you included in expressive types of crowds. Are there any experiences that you were the member of the crowd except two of those experiences?
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