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Theory of Collective Behavior by Neil Smelser

THEORY OF

COLLECTIVE

BEHAVIOR

NEIL J. SMELSER

NEW YORK: THE FREE PRESS

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

PREFACE page IX

I ANALYZING COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR 1

11 BASIC concepts: THE components of social

ACTION 23

III STRUCTURAL STRAIN UNDERLYING COLLECTIVE

BEHAVIOR 47

IV THE NATURE OF COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR 67

V THE CREATION OF GENERALIZED BELIEFS 79

VI THE PANIC 131

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