Collective Behavior - Journals. Social Movements and Activism. Collective behavior is defined as activity involving a relatively large number of people that is often spontaneous. It is typically short-term behavior. Social movements and activism are organized and relatively sustained activities that have a clear goal in terms of achieving or preventing some social change.

Collective Behavior - Journals

Mobilization is an international journal of research and theory specializing in social movements, protests and collective behavior. Mobilization was created to fill the void that there was no scholarly journal of research and theory with an interdiscplinary and international scope that dealt exclusively with social movements, protest and collective action. - mobilization.sdsu.edu/

Social Movement Studies is an international and inter-disciplinary journal providing a forum for academic debate and analysis of extra-parliamentary political, cultural and social movements throughout the world. Social Movement Studies has a broad, inter-disciplinary approach designed to accommodate papers engaging with any theoretical school and which study the origins, development, organisation, values, context and impact of historical and contemporary movements active in all parts of the world. - tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14742837.asp

The Institute of the Study of Collective Behavior and Memory is a non-profit, tax exempt organisation whose general purpose is to pursue research into ancient rituals, cosmologies, myths and legends, monuments and temples, symbols, systems of abstract and applied knowledge, and other clues to the early psychological history of mankind. A range of discoveries over the past few years has opened new lines of interpretation and suggested fascinating alternatives to the traditional concepts of the ancient world. We invite all with similar interests to join us in the effort by becoming a member. - catastrophism.com/cdrom/pubs/journals/horus/v0201/index.htm

Annual Review of Sociology - Vol. 1: 363-428 (Volume publication date August 1975) - Strands of Theory and Research in Collective Behavior - G T Marx, J L Wood arjournals.annualreviews.org/

Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian - Valuable, reliable information on the production, collection, organization, dissemination, retrieval, and use of information in the social and behavioral sciences! - Volume: 1 Issue: 3 ISSN: 0163-9269 Pub Date: 2/5/1981 - haworthpress.com

Journal of Organizational Behavior - John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. - www3.interscience.wiley.com

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Journal of Health and Human Behavior - jstor.org/journals/00959006.html

Journal of Health and Social Behavior - jstor.org/journals/00221465.html

Journal of Mundane Behavior, co-hosted by the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at Millersville University and the Department of Sociology and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at California State University, Fullerton, was a blind peer-reviewed scholarly and publicly-oriented journal devoted to the study of the "unmarked" -- those aspects of our everyday lives that typically go unnoticed by us, both as academics and as everyday individuals. - mundanebehavior.org/index2.htm

American Journal of Health Behavior: To provide a comprehensive understanding of the impact of personal attributes, personality characteristics, behavior patterns, social structure, and processes on health maintenance, health restoration, and health improvement; to disseminate knowledge of holistic, multidisciplinary approaches to designing and implementing effective health programs; and to showcase health behavior analysis skills that have been proven to affect health improvement and recovery. - ajhb.org/

The Journal of Mind and Behavior: JMB is based upon the premise that all meaningful statements about human behavior rest ultimately upon observation — with no one scientific method possessing, a priori, greater credence than another. Emphasis upon experimental control should not preclude the experiment as a measure of behavior outside the scientific laboratory. - http://www.umaine.edu/jmb/

The Journal of Health and Social Behavior is a medical sociology journal that publishes empirical and theoretical articles that apply sociological concepts and methods to the understanding of health and illness and the organization of medicine and health care. Its editorial policy favors manuscripts that are grounded in important theoretical issues in medical sociology or the sociology of mental health and that advance our theoretical understanding of the processes by which social factors and human health are interrelated. - asanet.org

The Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis is a psychology journal that publishes research about applications of the experimental analysis of behavior to problems of social importance. - seab.envmed.rochester.edu/jaba/

The Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior is a psychology journal primarily for the original publication of experiments relevant to the behavior of individual organisms. - seab.envmed.rochester.edu/jeab/

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