Collective behavior can result in social change through the formation of cohesive social movements.
Q. Is a collective action of groups which aims to promote or resist change in the society?
A social movement is collective effort to promote or resist change (Horton & Hunt, 1968). Though the movement is aimed at bringing about a change in the values, norms, ideologies of the existing system, efforts are also made by some other forces to resist the changes and to maintain the status quo.
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- Q. Is a collective action of groups which aims to promote or resist change in the society?
- Q. What is resistance to social change?
- Q. Which is the type of social movement attempts to prevent or undo change to the social structure?
- Q. What kind of social conditions give rise to collective behavior?
- Q. What makes a social movement?
- Q. Which of the following best defines a social movement?
- Q. What type of nations are the greatest sources of greenhouse gases?
- Q. What is the goal of a revolutionary social movement?
- Q. What is an example of redemptive social movement?
Q. What is resistance to social change?
Some people resist social change. Cultural factors also play a central role in resistance to social change. When technology enters a society, non‐material culture must respond to changes in material culture.
Q. Which is the type of social movement attempts to prevent or undo change to the social structure?
Resistance movements seek to prevent or undo change to the social structure. The Ku Klux Klan and pro-life movements fall into this category.
Q. What kind of social conditions give rise to collective behavior?
Value-added theory argues that collective behavior results when several conditions exist, including structural strain, generalized beliefs, precipitating factors, and lack of social control. All these conditions must exist for collective behavior to occur.
Q. What makes a social movement?
A social movement is a loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one. This may be to carry out, resist or undo a social change. They represent a method of social change from the bottom within nations.
Q. Which of the following best defines a social movement?
Which of the following best defines a social movement? A purposeful organized group hoping to work toward a common social goal.
Q. What type of nations are the greatest sources of greenhouse gases?
World systems analysis suggests that while, historically, core nations (like the United States and Western Europe) were the greatest source of greenhouse gases, they have now evolved into postindustrial societies.
Q. What is the goal of a revolutionary social movement?
A revolutionary movement (or revolutionary social movement) is a specific type of social movement dedicated to carrying out a revolution. A social movement may want to make various reforms and to gain some control of the state, but as long as they do not aim for an exclusive control, its members are not revolutionary.
Q. What is an example of redemptive social movement?
Redemptive social movements try to cause total change in specific individuals. Alcoholics Anonymous is an example of a redemptive social movement. It seeks to help an alcoholic to stop drinking, which changes his whole life.
