The study of collective behavior poses some particularly interesting problems for sociology because

a. sociologists are not accustomed to studying social interaction.
b. collective behavior is difficult to define in sociological terms.
c. there are no sociological theories to account for collective behavior.
d. it is difficult to plan research around spontaneous behavior.
e. collective behavior does not occur often enough for it to be studied.


D

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