Consider the Following Antisocial Acts: European Soccer Fans Sometimes Attack

question 192

Multiple Choice

Consider the following antisocial acts: European soccer fans sometimes attack and bludgeon players and other fans; in the United States, members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) burned houses and lynched innocents; frenzied rock and roll fans trample one another, sometimes resulting in deaths. What do these situations have in common? They __________.

• A) represent the downside of social facilitation
• B) demonstrate the tragedies sometimes caused by anonymity
• C) represent an unexpected hazard of group cohesion
• D) reflect mass actions caused by relative deprivation

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Oligopolistic Industry

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