Political prejudice has been an principal obstacle to scientific research on social movements for a long time. By this reason, social movements stayed outside of any serious research object of social science field. With the emerging Resource Mobilizat...
Political prejudice has been an principal obstacle to scientific research on social movements for a long time. By this reason, social movements stayed outside of any serious research object of social science field. With the emerging Resource Mobilization Theory in United States, and New Social Movement Theory in Europe in the seventies, social movements became interesting object of academical discussion. Initially based on Olson`s rational action model, and in pursuit of solving Olson`s paradox, Resource Mobilization Theory announce the rupture with Collective Behaviour Theory to construct his own theoretical frame and accumulate empirical studies. In the mid-eighties, Resource Mobilization Theory threw away narrowness of his model based uniquely on methodological individualism and calculative rationality to communicate New Social Movement, to rediscover a certain aspect of Collective Behaviour Theory, and to introduce Symbolic Interactionism. Which certainly enrage the horizon of research, but the problem of elaborating new theoretical frame capable of integrating diverse approaches rest still unsolved.