TEORIJA DRUŠTVENIH POKRETA – AMERIČKE PERSPEKTIVE
THE THEORY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS – AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES

Summary/Abstract: An attempt has been made in this work to present and synthesise post-war American perspectives in the research of social movements, within the framework of sociology and theory of social movements. The first chapter deals with the forerunners of the theory of social movements. Le Bon is mentioned because of his influence on the Chicago School of collective behaviourism. Special attention is given to Rudolf Heberle, the first renowned post-war theoretician of social movements. The classic theory of social movements is presented through its three well-known variants: collective behaviour, the theory of mass society, and the model of status inconsistency. Common to them all is the general causal definition of social movements, interpreted as irrational behaviour. The resource-mobilizational theory emerged in answer to the appearance of new social movements, which could no longer be interpreted from the classic perspective of extra-institutional collective action.

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