2. Collective Behavior
O Macro vs. Micro
O Gathers, demonstrations, and riots
O Behaviors within gatherings: milling,
common focus, collective locomotion,
queuing, collective vocalization
O Behaviors within demonstrations: religious
and political rallies, sporting events
O Behavior within riots: looting
3. Social Movements
O Inconspicuous beginnings
O Four things required:
O Preexisting communications network
O That is co-optable
O Crisis
O Organizing effort
4. Culture
O What is culture?
O Material vs. non-material culture
O Ethnocentrism, xenocentrism,
temporocentrism, culture shock
O Symbols, language (Sapir-Whorf), values,
norms (prescriptive & proscriptive, folkways,
mores & taboos)
O High, folk, popular culture
O Subcultures, countercultures
O Ideal vs. real culture
5. Social Structure
O Status (ascribed and achieved)
O Master status
O Roles
O Prescribed role, role perception, role
performance
O Role ambiguity, role strain, role conflict,
role confusion
6. Social Groups
O Statistical groups, categorical groups,
limited social groups, social groups
O Primary and secondary groups
O Dyad and Triad
O In-group and out-group
7. Socialization
O Nature vs. nurture
O Social isolation
O Mead: development of self, role taking, play
(preparatory, play and game stages),
generalized other, I & Me
O Cooley: looking-glass self
O Goffman: dramaturgical approach,
maintaining self
O Major agents of socialization
O Socialization as adults
8. Social Institutions
O Society must be self-sufficient
O Societal needs and what institutions fill
them
O Ideal type
O Generally unplanned (routine), inherently
conservative, interdependent, bear little
resemblance from society to society
9. Deviance and Control
O Deviance, deviants, conformity
O Variations in behavior
O Durkheim
O Positive and negative functions of
deviance
O Internal and external means of control
O Positive and negative, informal and formal
sanctions
O Biological, psychoanalytic and sociological
theories
10. Deviance and Control
O Merton’s strain theory
O Conflict theory
O Symbolic interaction: cultural
transmission, differential association,
social learning theory
O Labeling theory
11. Stratification
O Open vs. closed systems
O Systems of stratification (caste, estate,
slave, class)
O Weber: Class, status, party (power)
O Socioeconomic status
O Upper, middle, lower classes
O Poverty
O Class consciousness
O Structural functionalist and conflict theory
