Social Change: Looking Toward Tomorrow

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Across
  1. 2. Interests or practices followed by enthusiastically for a relatively short period of time
  2. 3. The widespread custom or style of behavior and appearance at a particular time or in a particular place
  3. 7. A theory of social movements that focuses on the practical constraints that help or hinder social movements' action
  4. 9. A theory of social movements that assumes people join not because of the movements' ideals, but to satisfy psychological needs to belong to something larger than themselves
  5. 10. Any social groups with leadership, organization, and an ideological commitment to promote or resist social change
  6. 11. A type of social dilemma in which individuals incur the cost to contribute to a collective resource, though they may never benefit from that resource
  7. 14. Large groups of people engaging in similar behaviors without necessarily being in the same place
  8. 15. Continuous disorderly behavior by a group of people that disturbs the peace and is directed toward the other people and/or property
Down
  1. 1. A type of social dilemma in which many individuals' overexploitation of a public resource depletes or degrades that common resource
  2. 4. One of the earliest theories of collective action; suggested that individuals who joined a crowd could become "infected" by a mob-mentality and lose the ability to reason
  3. 5. A situation in which behavior that is rational for the individual can, when practiced by many people, lead to collective disaster
  4. 6. Behavior that follows from the formation of a group or crowd of people who take action together toward a shared goal
  5. 7. A theory of social movements that focuses on the actions of oppressed groups who seek rights or opportunities already enjoyed by others in the society
  6. 8. A theory of collective behavior that assumes individual members of a crowd make their own decisions about behavior and that norms are created through others' acceptance or rejection of those behaviors
  7. 12. A temporary gathering of individuals, whether spontaneous or planned, who share a common focus
  8. 13. The transformation of a culture over time