ers in Nashville were able to provide college students appropriate training to participate. (4) Precipitating factors: in Nashville sit-in, precipitating factors seem to be vague; it could be prior protests in other cities.(5) Mobilization of participants for action: this factor was the most well presented in Nashville sit-in. Religious groups, community leaders, and college students were interconnected strongly and showed great support for each other. This strong bond made it possible to run well-managed protests.(6) The operation of social control: again, Nashville sit-in movement showed victory over social control in many ways. When the students were met with violence and arrests, the black community rallied to support them with attorneys and bail money. Also, when Northern students heard of the movement, they decided to help their southern counterparts by picketing even though they had no same conditions in their area. These movements were well reflected in the media, too.#2.In sum, the predictive aspects of Smelsers theory of collective behavior are the logic of value-added and six determinants of collective behavior presented earlier. The followings are the important determinants of collective behavior. Structural conduciveness: refers to the broad social conditions that are necessary for an episode of collective behavior to occur-example: to have a financial panic, you need a money market in which assets can be freely and quickly exchanged.Structural strain: exists where various aspects of a system are in some way out of joint with each other. Various events can create stress that makes people susceptible to courses of action not defined by existing social arrangements.The growth and spread of a generalized belief: structural strain alone does not produce collective behavior. The strain must be interpreted in a meaningful way by the potential participants. A generalized belief provides people with answers to their stressful cir...
