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Identify and Explain Smelser's Six Determinants That Encourage or Discourage

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Identify and explain Smelser's six determinants that encourage or discourage collective behavior.What are some of the criticisms of Smelser's structural strain theory?


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Age-Regression

A psychological phenomenon in which an individual reverts to a previous state of mental development or relives experiences from a past age or life stage.

Hypnotized

A trance-like state resembling sleep, typically induced by a therapist by focusing a person's attention, that heightens their suggestibility, memory, and imagination.

Freudian Terms

Concepts and theories developed by Sigmund Freud that focus on the unconscious mind, psychosexual stages, and defense mechanisms among others.

Manifest Content

In psychoanalytic theory, the apparent, literal content of a dream, as opposed to the hidden or symbolic meaning (latent content).

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