RachelL

Collective Behavior & Social Movements

__Question:__ > **How can collective behaviors lead to positive changes?** > >//What causes collective behaviors to lay positive changes?// > -ex) Egypt revolution, Libya, jasmine revolution

__Unique Audience:__ > people with different political views > **reporters** > publish on newspaper message boards where people can respond

__Unique Audience Feedback:__ -I presented my ideas about collective behaviors to a small group of reporters and anchors. I chose them as my unique audience because they are familiar with people's collective behaviors as they are the ones who report about such happenings. I showed them by research paper written in English and explained further in Korean. Unlike I expected, they did not criticize as harsh as I thought they would be. I guess they were going easy because I am just a high school student. Here are some points they made about my research paper. -organization (even though I thought I improved on organization, they said my body paragraphs are way too long) -quality of examples (half of them were about Koreans; need to be more diverse) >-"Be the Reds" not enough details to support my argument >but still, three examples I provided were from different categories; good! -opening paragraph (I started my paper with an example of Korean singer; some really liked it as some did not) -need more analysis; right now, there seems more about facts -defining the term "collective behavior" was helpful -they were pleased to read what a high school student thought about social issues -in the future, try to dig more into the issue

Overall, it was nice to present my ideas to people who have professional jobs. I was surprised by how much they knew about social issues and how passionate they were about their jobs. Compare to what they know, my research paper was just like a piece of writing written by a student. Lastly, I enjoyed talking to them about other issues besides my topic.

__Final Research Paper:__

__Reading Plan:__ 1) Textbook Chapter 21 (3/21) -Read chapter 21 again in details, this time study chapter 21 -Reading textbook will help me gain broad basic idea of what I will be researching on

2) NY Times article (3/18) -http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/24/world/asia/24china.html -Jasmine revolution has been issued in China; democratic movements found in communist country

3) Global post article (3/18) -http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/china/110221/protest-dissent-jasmine-revolution -Knowing the global trend will help me understand how collective behaviors lead to positive changes

4) Libya (3/18) -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Libyan_uprising -Basic knowledge of what is going on in Libya. Revolting against a dictator is a good phenomenon.

5) Opposing Viewpoint (3/20) -book: The Social Psychology of Protest -This book contains positive and negative effects of social protests

>>if possible, look for books from library