ABSTRACT
The term social mobilization is quite popular in contemporary social sciences. Social mobilization constitutes a very complex process involving the disintegration of a preexisting structure, some kind of response or reaction to it, availability of people for new forms of behavior, the acting out of such readiness, and finally reintegration into society. The cycle of mobilization is completed when from the initial integration and beginnings of disintegration a state of reintegration is achieved in one way or another. Other types of phases may also be distinguished in the cycle: phases of different intensity and/or speed in the structural change, preceding or accompanying social mobilization, or differing intensity and speed of psychosocial change, in terms of rise of awareness, ideologization, overt behavior modification, and organized or nonorganized action. The role of a displaced or partially displaced elite in social change and especially in the process of modernization has been emphasized in various theories.
