Social Movement, Social change
________are action-oriented. In the gay marriage movement, a call to action might encourage you to vote "no" on a move to limit marriage to male-female couples, or conversely, to contact your local congressperson to express your viewpoint that marriage should be restricted to male-female couples.
Motivational frames
________ is a system for understanding collective behavior that credited individuals in crowds as rational beings. This theory refocuses attention from collective behavior to collective action, which is based on a shared interest.
Assembling perspective
There are three primary forms of collective behavior
crowd, mass, and public
The gap between those who have access to technology and those who do not have access to technology is referred to as the ________.
digital divide
Social movements go through a ________ stage process. A movement begins when people become aware of an issue and leaders emerge, then people join and organize the group. Once the social movement becomes institutionalized, it may even have a paid staff. If people fall away or if the movement becomes successful enough in its goals, the movement falls into decline.
four
Email and immediate information have simply increased the amount of time employees are expected to be responsive and available. Previously, businesses had to travel at the speed of the U.S. postal system, sending something off and waiting until it was received before the next stage, today the ________ means there are no such breaks.
immediacy of information transfer
A movement that wants to introduce new norms or change norms and values, like moving towards self-driving cars, is an example of a(n) ________.
innovative movement
Although we tend to take for granted the fundamental changes ________ caused, and we may be completely unfamiliar with the trend toward global social movements, most of us are aware of the anti-tobacco movement that has worked to outlaw smoking in public buildings and raise the cost of cigarettes.
social movements
