3.1 Collective Behavior

📔 Session A (Lecture)¶

Collective behavior: from contagion to thresholds.

• Historical approaches: Le Bon’s crowd psychology, modern collective behavior theory.

• Threshold models: Granovetter’s framework for understanding collective action.

• Applications: riots, social movements, technology adoption.

🔆 Collective Behavior (Slides)

📔 Session B (SRG)¶

Discussion of readings.

📖 Mark Granovetter (1978) “Threshold Models of Collective Behavior”.