Blog 10: Social Change

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In this video, the main topics are collective behavior and social movements. The video does briefly discuss what social change is. Their definition of social change is that it “refers to any significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and cultural values.” The video then gives a definition of what collective behavior means to them. The definition is that it “refers to events that suddenly emerge. These events do not conform to rules or laws but instead are shaped based on the issue at hand.” According to the video, there are four different types of collect behavior. The first type they discuss is a crowd, which is a large number of people gathered together and they’re typically disorganized. An example of a crowd that the video used was people waiting at a bus station. The second type is Mass Hysteria which is a widespread, intense fear of and concern for a danger that turns out to be false or exaggerated. The example that is used is the way people act during a earth quake or volcanic eruption. The third type is the Fads and Fashion, which is things or a person that trend or is new and can catch a great amount of interest. The example that the video used was the KPOP. The last type is Social Movements, which are large and informal groups of people or organizations that focus on specific political or social issues. According to the video, there are three types of Social Movements. The first one is Revitalization which is the organized conscious effort by members of a society to construct a more satisfying culture. The second type is Reform, which is a social movement that aims to make gradual change or change in certain aspects of society. The last one is Revolutionary which is social movement dedicated to carrying out a revolution and it is a movement advancing exclusive competing claims to control of the state.
This is a great video because it ties into what we are learning about. In class we were learning about social change. Like the video, we discusses collective behavior and social movements. The definition we used to explain what social change is, was “transformation of culture overtime.” The difference between what we talked about and what the video talked about is that we talked about collective actions and we talked about the stages of social movements. Overall the video tied to the things we learned in class and it gave us a little more insight into what collective behavior and social movements are and what they do.
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