ABSTRACT
In the literature on large-scale social movements, three approaches are typically distinguished – the so-called classical model, the resource mobilisation model and the political process model (e.g. McAdam 1982). The classical model puts the accent on discontent in order to explain the mobilisation of social movements. Popular discontent, in turn, has different sources according to different variants of the classical model – structural strain, social isolation, status inconsistencies, system strain.
