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How to Analyze the Influence of Movements
Scholars have been shifting their attention from explaining the rise and fall of social movements to addressing their influence on political and other institutions. And why not? Social movements’ bids to effect social change are why people join them, and why scholars first studied them. Possibilities for analysis abound. Movements target many institutions—mainly states, but also the news media (Ferree, Gamson, Gerhards, and Rucht 2002, Sobieraj 2011), businesses (Soule 2010, King 2008), religious organizations (Katzenstein 1999, Kniss and Burns 2004), and universities (Rojas 2006, Moore 2008), among others. Social movement scholars refer to attempts to change these institutions and their processes and outcomes as potential ‘‘external’’ consequences of social movements. They are not directly under the control of movements, as are bids to change members’ lives, their commitment to the organization, or to create frames. But transforming movements from an object of explanation to an explanation sets up obstacles to developing a coherent and cumulative scholarship.
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