Emergent accommodation groups: some phenomena outside of current collective behavior typologies.

Collective behavior as a field of inquiry has traditionally been interested in the emergence of new social groups. In this connection, the focus has primarily been on such phenomena as lynch mobs, rioting crowds, religious sects, deviant cults, disputing factions of publics, revolutionary uprisings, reform movements etc. One aspect that characterizes such groups is that they are conflict groups. That is, the new or emerging groups are typically at odds, or engaged in some kind of social struggle with other groups and/or the contemporary social order. When groups emerge, they may only be a temporary adaptation in the social structure, or they may be forerunners of social change. An emergent group may become part of the new social order in the city, and become relatively permanent. In this paper the need to look at accommodative type emergent groups is emphasized. The examples are taken from American society. However, emergent type accommodation groups may appear in other societies also, although it is to be supposed that some social structures are more conducive to their development than others