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SOCIAL TERM: Βιβλίο κωδικοποίησης / Codebook

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SOCIAL TERM: Συλλογική συμπεριφορά / Collective behavior

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TERM TYPE: Theoretical

DEFINITION (1): «Relatively spontaneous social actions that occur when people respond to unstructured and ambiguous situations» (Tischler, 2014,p.402).

DEFINITION WRITER: Markantonatou Maria

REFERENCE: Tischler, H.L. (2014).Introduction to Sociology.Belmont: Wadsworth Cangage Learning.

p.402

DEFINITION (2): «Collective behavior includes an enormous array of behaviors, processes, structures, and contexts and it encompasses parts of many sociological subfields. It tend to focus on a particular kind of behavior, rather than on particular institutions, as schools, abstract group proprieties, such as social stratification or bureaucratic structure, or a single social process such as socialization […] What do sociologists mean by the term collective behavior? College catalogues usually describe a collective behavior course as involving the study of crowds, fads, disasters, panics, and social movements. Such a listing is descriptively accurate. Yet what binds these things together? Which elements are included, and which excluded? […] The term collective behavior does not have much literal meaning since strictly speaking it includes any group behavior […] The logic involves emergent group behavior in settings where cultural guidelines are nonspecific, inadequate, in dispute, or lacking altogether» (Marx and McAdam 1994: 1, 2, 3).

DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal

DEFINITION WRITER: Νίκος Σερντεδάκις

REFERENCE: Marx, Gary T., and Douglas McAdam. 1994. Collective Behavior and Social Movements. Process and Structure. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

DEFINITION (3): «Broadly conceived, collective behavior refers to group action that tends to be more spontaneous and often emotionally driven, as might occur in mass or diffuse phenomena, such as panics, fads, crazes, and sometimes riots».

DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal

DEFINITION WRITER: Νίκος Σερντεδάκις

REFERENCE: Snow, David A., Sarah A. Soule, Hanspeter Kriesi,and Holly J. McCammon. 2019. «Introduction: Mapping and Opening Up the Terrain». Pp. 1-16, in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, edited by David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule, Hanspeter Kriesi, and Holly J. McCammon. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 6.2019. «Introduction: Mapping and Opening Up the Terrain». Pp. 1-16, in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, edited by David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule, Hanspeter Kriesi, and Holly J. McCammon. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 6.

DEFINITION (4): «The study of social protest has only recently emerged from the straitjacket of collective behavior. […] The classical perspective is one in which organized groups seek goals, mobilize resources, and employ strategies, but social movements merely express reactions by the victims of social pathology. Their cries and emotional expressions are viewed as signals of the stresses and strains of society. They react, frequently violently, sensing, without really understanding, the larger social forces which buffet them. Social movements, in this view, are one product of social disorganization; other products include suicide, criminal behavior, and additional symptoms of a social system in trouble. The participants in social movements are the uprooted. […] The most sophisticated statement of the collective behavior perspective is Smelser’s Theory of Collective Behavior (1963). […] In this version, it is assumed that all political actors will sometimes search for solutions to intractable problems by raising the level of generality. This, in itself, is normal and rational. What distinguishes collective behavior is the phenomenon of “short-circuiting”. Intervening steps are jumped as the actor moves from a highly generalized and abstract component of action directly to a source of strain. The short-circuit is made by members of a movement by means of what Smelser calls a “generalized belief”. Generalized beliefs are distinguished from other kinds of political beliefs by their failure to specify how we get from the abstract norm or value being questioned to the concrete situations that are producing a problem. A generalized belief is a myth by which to mobilize people. […] For all his sophistication, then, Smelser retains a sharp distinction between the essentially rational action of routine politics and the oversimplified “generalized beliefs” by which participants in mass movements are moved to act.» (Gamson 1990: 130-132)

DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal

DEFINITION WRITER: Νίκος Σερντεδάκις

REFERENCE: Gamson, William, 1990 [1974]. The Strategy of Social Protest. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company.

SOCIAL TERM: Συλλογική ταυτότητα / Collective identity

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TERM TYPE: Theoretical

DEFINITION (1): «From the 1980s onward movement scholars have increasingly emphasized the significance of collective identity as a factor stimulating protest participation. Sociologists were among the first to emphasize the importance of collective identity in protest participation. They argued that the generation of a collective identity is crucial for a movement to emerge (Taylor, V., and Whittier, N.E. 1992. “Collective identity in social movement communities: Lesbian feminist mobilization”. In: Morris, A., and Mueller, C. (eds), Frontiers of Social Movement Theory. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.) […] Collective identity is conceived as an emergent group phenomenon. Melucci (Melucci, A. 1989. Nomads of the Present: Social Movements and Individual Needs in Contemporary Society. Hutchinson Radius, London, pp. 793) refers to the process of collective identity: “Collective identity is an interactive, shared definition of the field of opportunities and constraints offered to collective action produced by several individuals that must be conceived as a process because it is constructed and negotiated by repeated activation of the relationships that link individuals to groups.” Hence, identity is not a given fact; identity is a practical accomplishment, a process. Identifying ourselves or others is a matter of meaning, and meaning always involves interaction: agreement and disagreement, convention and innovation, communication and negotiation (Jenkins, R. 2004. Social Identity. Routledge).» (Van Stekelenburg 2013: 113-114)

DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal

DEFINITION WRITER: Νίκος Σερντεδάκις

REFERENCE: van Stekelenburg, Jacquelien. 2013. “Collective Identity”. In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclope-dia of Social and Political Movements. Edited by Snow, D., della Porta, D., Klandermans, B., and McAdam D. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.

SOCIAL TERM: Συλλογικές αναπαραστάσεις / Collective representations

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TERM TYPE: Theoretical

SOCIAL TERM: Συλλογική ευθύνη / Collective responsibility

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TERM TYPE: Theoretical

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SOCIAL TERM: Συλλογική συμπεριφορά / Collective behavior

DEFINITION (1): «Relatively spontaneous social actions that occur when people respond to unstructured and ambiguous situations» (Tischler, 2014,p.402).

REFERENCE: Tischler, H.L. (2014).Introduction to Sociology.Belmont: Wadsworth Cangage Learning.

p.402

REFERENCE: Marx, Gary T., and Douglas McAdam. 1994. Collective Behavior and Social Movements. Process and Structure. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

DEFINITION (3): «Broadly conceived, collective behavior refers to group action that tends to be more spontaneous and often emotionally driven, as might occur in mass or diffuse phenomena, such as panics, fads, crazes, and sometimes riots».

REFERENCE: Gamson, William, 1990 [1974]. The Strategy of Social Protest. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company.

SOCIAL TERM: Συλλογική ταυτότητα / Collective identity

REFERENCE: van Stekelenburg, Jacquelien. 2013. “Collective Identity”. In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclope-dia of Social and Political Movements. Edited by Snow, D., della Porta, D., Klandermans, B., and McAdam D. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.

SOCIAL TERM: Συλλογικές αναπαραστάσεις / Collective representations

SOCIAL TERM: Συλλογική ευθύνη / Collective responsibility

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SOCIAL TERM: Συλλογική συμπεριφορά / Collective behavior

DEFINITION (1): «Relatively spontaneous social actions that occur when people respond to unstructured and ambiguous situations» (Tischler, 2014,p.402).

REFERENCE: Tischler, H.L. (2014).Introduction to Sociology.Belmont: Wadsworth Cangage Learning.

p.402

REFERENCE: Marx, Gary T., and Douglas McAdam. 1994. Collective Behavior and Social Movements. Process and Structure. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

DEFINITION (3): «Broadly conceived, collective behavior refers to group action that tends to be more spontaneous and often emotionally driven, as might occur in mass or diffuse phenomena, such as panics, fads, crazes, and sometimes riots».

REFERENCE: Gamson, William, 1990 [1974]. The Strategy of Social Protest. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company.

SOCIAL TERM: Συλλογική ταυτότητα / Collective identity

REFERENCE: van Stekelenburg, Jacquelien. 2013. “Collective Identity”. In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclope-dia of Social and Political Movements. Edited by Snow, D., della Porta, D., Klandermans, B., and McAdam D. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.

SOCIAL TERM: Συλλογικές αναπαραστάσεις / Collective representations

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