The present article shows a reflection of the way social mobilization has been understood historically, both from approaches that conceive it as a product of the class struggle, as well as from functionalist approaches, in order to demonstrate the transit that has allowed the emergence of A contemporary conception that emphasizes the cultural and symbolic dimension of social movements. Likewise, articulations are proposed between this new way of conceiving social mobilization, with the development of the identity paradigm, which leads to consider identity as an important dimension of social movements. For this, a historical development of the concept of identity is also made, making a tour of the approach that has taken place from psychological and psychosocial perspectives, to situate in this way the concept of collective identity, which is the one that allows establishing the Articulation that in this reflection is proposed with social mobilization.