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The article attempts to conceptualize non-institutional politics, as well as shows the process of its growing role in contemporary politics. The thesis was adopted that a common element of the detailed reasons for the growing importance of non-institutional politics, which brings closer and even includes non-institutional politics into conventional politics, is protest. It constitutes the central analytical category around which to build a theoretical justification for the thesis adopted here, which states that nowadays non-institutional politics has become part of the so-called traditional politics. The arguments for this thesis can be divided into two main streams: the first, systemic, concerns the transformations that have affected the institutionalized politics within democratic systems over the last half-century, the second, participatory, refers to the multifaceted development of social movements. Both include a broad set of factors that the process of developing non-institutional policy and, consequently, increase its rank and legitimacy.

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Problemy społeczne a mobilizacja społeczna. Inspiracje dla pracy socjalnej w świetle teorii ruchów społecznych

Grzegorz Foryś

Issues in Social Work, Volume 23, Issue 2, 2018, pp. 87 - 115

https://doi.org/10.4467/24496138ZPS.18.007.8988

Social problems and social mobilization. Inspirations for social work in the context

of theories of social movements

The authors try to answer the basic question concerning the issue of usefulness of social movements in the area of social work as an academic discipline. Theories of social movements have used two types of theoretical achievements. On the one hand we have in mind three perspectives used in sociology to reconsider the nature of society, namely: the organism, the battle-field (in two forms: the conflict and the exchange) as well as the theater. Moreover, the fourth perspective might be added under the frame of social movements, namely: the protest. As a result, some mechanisms of generating of social problems might be perceived in this context. On the second hand, theories of social movements introduce the issues of various types of social mobilizations treated as mechanisms of social problems solutions.

The structure of article has been based on some key concepts, such as: society, social change, social problem, social movement and social mobilization. Such a conceptual and theoretical perspective has had a major task to enable various analyses in the area of social problems as well as social change and the role of social movements in this context. However, the main goal of the article has been mainly focused on the broadening of analytical frames that might be useful in the description and explanation of social problems without providing interested researchers in exact tools to analyze particular methods and ways of action in the area of social work.

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Grzegorz Foryś

University of the National Education Commission, Krakow ( Poland)