Sometimes the motivations for large protests organized by college activists are criticized. Highly organized and attended protests in Washington, D. C., are seen as "spring break" for activists, who take part more for an escape and to belong to something than for anything else. What theory would support this critique?

Mass society theory

Explanation:

Sometimes the motivations for large protests organized by college activists are criticized. Highly organized and attended protests in Washington, D.C., are seen as "spring break" for activists, who take part more for an escape and to belong to something than for anything else. What theory would support this critique?

Mass society theory is one of the earliest theories of social movement, mass society theory is a social movement that attract socially isolated people(individuals) seeking a sense of identity and purpose, it argue that individual in a large society who feel insignificant are brought together by a sense of belonging in which movement member would not have as an individual.

Mass society is a complex concept that it basic idea might be used by extremist movement to lure venerable individual

ideologically this concept of mass society has been used by conservative thinkers and other organisation of the society to express dismay about it process that individuals who partook in protests are just people who are socially isolated with no sense of actual commitment but for significant sake and sense of belonging.

i have to go with a for this one