Chapter 18

Chapter 18

Collective behavior is spontaneous and non-regular behavior, and in response to a specific event, usually involving more than one person.  While institutionalized behavior consists of behavior that is regular and consistent; a pattern.  

An example of collective behavior is when a disaster hits and the way people respond.  Something unstructured and dependent on that specific event.  

An example of institutionalized behavior is when you go to church every Sunday, go to your classes for school, going to work (your job 9am-5pm).  

In college the students who gathered together are called a crowd, all of us who were there were there to learn.  We had the same common interest to learn and gain our degree.  The sport events or clubs that got together are conventional crowds. And a casual crowd could be given the example of those who will go and see the Honolulu Hale's city lights.  

Propaganda is the use of manipulation on the publics emotions to con them into accepting a particular view. And censorship is when the public is kept from certain information, or for example...when the Government puts an age on buying cigarettes, alcohol, buying porn, seeing X-rated movies.  Censorship is different from propaganda because censorship doesn't give false information, they just withhold certain bits of information completely.  An example of each is when I tell my son that the store ran out of Ninja Turtles, when in fact they did not but I told him this so that I do not have to buy him yet another toy and so that he is given a "good" enough reason that he will stop asking for it, propaganda.  And an example of censorship would be that the toy is too expensive but I do not tell him that I have a coupon for it making it cheaper...in the end I still don't want to buy him more toys ;0P