Ch 21: Social Movements and Social Change

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Across
  1. 3. the process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people
  2. 5. a theory that explains social movements’ success in terms of their ability to acquire resources and mobilize individuals
  3. 8. a functionalist perspective theory that posits that several preconditions must be in place for collective behavior to occur
  4. 13. a call to action
  5. 14. the change in a society created through social movements as well as through external factors like environmental shifts or technological innovations
  6. 17. an unorganized, relatively diffuse group of people who share ideas
  7. 19. movements that seek to change something specific about the social structure
  8. 22. a perspective that emphasizes the importance of social norms in crowd behavior
  9. 23. those who seek to prevent or undo change to the social structure
  10. 24. people who come together for a regularly scheduled event
  11. 27. a purposeful organized group hoping to work toward a common social goal
  12. 28. social movements that limit themselves to self-improvement changes in individuals
  13. 29. using bridging, amplification, extension, and transformation as an ongoing and intentional means of recruiting participants to a movement
  14. 31. a theory that attempts to explain the proliferation of postindustrial and postmodern movements that are difficult to understand using traditional social movement theories
Down
  1. 1. crowds of people who are focused on a specific action or goal
  2. 2. crowds who share opportunities to express emotions
  3. 4. movements that seek to completely change every aspect of society
  4. 6. a theory that credits individuals in crowds as behaving as rational thinkers and views crowds as engaging in purposeful behavior and collective action
  5. 7. social movements that state a clear solution and a means of implementation
  6. 9. movements that work to promote inner change or spiritual growth in individuals
  7. 10. the multiple social movement industries in a society, even if they have widely varying constituents and goals
  8. 11. people who share close proximity without really interacting
  9. 12. a single social movement group
  10. 15. a social problem that is stated in a clear, easily understood manner
  11. 16. the collection of the social movement organizations that are striving toward similar goals
  12. 18. a fairly large number of people who share close proximity
  13. 20. nongovernmental organizations working globally for numerous humanitarian and environmental causes
  14. 21. a noninstitutionalized activity in which several people voluntarily engage
  15. 25. the process that increases the amount of specialization and differentiation of structure in societies
  16. 26. a relatively large group with a common interest, even if they may not be in close proximity
  17. 30. a large group of people who gather together in a spontaneous activity that lasts a limited amount of time