According to Armand Mauss, what happens in the second stage of a social movement’s development? The social movement declines and disappears from view. The social movement turns into a bureaucracy. The social movement becomes incorporated into institutions. Like-minded individuals begin to organize.

Armand Mauss theorized the behavior of social movements and his research led him to create a theoretical model for their study. Such model is composed of five stages that, according to Mauss, social movements tipically go through: incipiency, coalescence, institutionalization, fragmentation, and demise.

The second phase, coalescence, is when like-minded individuals begin to organize; it differs from the first phase in that, although in the first one large groups of people show discontent and distress about a particular situation, in the phase of coalescence, these people begin to organize. The social movement begins to organize itself and increase its resources and capabilities.