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A review of the main theoretical approaches to the study of social movements in Western societies. The predominant models of the 1960s were the theories of collective behavior and mass society as conceptualized by Erich FROMM, U. Kornhauser, Herbert Blumer, S. M. Lipset, etc, which assume the empirical framework of a democratic society based on the consensus of various group inter-ests, but also the instability of primary social groups and social isolation of individuals. Criticisms directed toward these theories are discussed. Resource mobilization theory emerged in the 1970s, conceptualized by I. McCarthy, M. Zald, A. Oberschall, etc, and assuming that social movements are based on existing institutions that facilitate social change. Social organization for change adopts the goals of the institutions of the dominant culture, but attributes different values to them and seeks different means for their implementation. Both external (level of legal state development, financial and social potential) and internal (groups involved, time spent on organization, money) factors determine the success of social movements. Western social movments of the 1980s are characterized by larger groups with varied interests, reflecting the globalization of the society itself, and calling for new structural theoretical models.
Kritika sozialnoi teorii Erika Fromma [Kritik der Gesellschaftstheorie Erich Fromms, Moskau 1969.
(1969)
Erich Fromm's fortuitous visit to México in 1949, and his meeting with a group of Mexican psychiatrists was the beginning of a working relationship that lasted for over 25 years. It left its mark on a number of community-oriented institutions, professional societies and publications, which are alive even today. This article describes some of the many activities in which researchers, psychoanalysts, medical doctors, psychologists, social workers, sociologists, anthropologists and re-ligious scholars were involved over those 25 years, and the continuing importance of those initial projects and institutions today.
Predislowie
(1998)
Perwije prinzipe philosophskoi anthropologii, Wolgograd (Isdatelstwo Wolgogradskowo) 1997, 195 p.
(1997)
The successes of socialism are more notable when compared to the profound crisis of international capitalism and its spiritual degradation. The West is currently struggling with problems of implementing high technology, often capable of effecting substantial economic and social transformations. Special attention is given to the concept of technocracy. Many bourgeois social scientists, eg, Leslie White, have pointed toward the absolute role of science and technology in determining the social system. Both optimistic and pessimistic appraisals are offered by contemporary bourgeois scholars, including Ellul, Douglas, FROMM, Mamford, Toffler, Drucker, Wiener, and Bell. M. Meeks