Mass hysteria revisionary movement reformulation equilibrium theory world-system theory

1. 16.3 CHAPTER 16
REALITY CONNECTION
Emily Keefe

2. MASS HYSTERIA
• An unfounded anxiety shared by people who are scattered over a wide geographic
area

3. REVISIONARY MOVEMENT
• A social movement that tries to improve or revise some part of society through
social change

4. REFORMULATION
• The process of adapting borrowed cultural traits

5. EQUILIBRIUM THEORY
• Talcott Parsons's view of social change in which society is likened to a living
organism. Change in one part of the social system produces change in all other
parts as the system attempts to regain balance, or equilibrium

6. WORLD-SYSTEM THEORY
• A theory of modernization, proposed by Immanuel Wallerstein, in which the spread
of capitalism is seen as producing an international division of labor between more-
developed and less-developed nations. According to this view, the more-developed
nations control the factors of production and the less-developed nations serve as
sources of cheap labor and raw materials

7. SOURCES
LaVerne, T. (n.d.). Sociology Chapter 16: Collective Behavior and Social Change.
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