ABSTRACT
In this chapter I will discuss topics and questions important to address in the task of charting the structure of social movement culture in terms of degree or extent. The phrase “charting the structure” is the earmark of what I will discuss—and therefore of what I will not discuss. As usefully mapped by Wuthnow and Witten, sociological studies of culture vary along the two major dimensions of (1) conceiving culture as an “implicit feature of social life” as opposed to viewing it as an “explicit social construction” and (2) focus on “social contexts in which culture is produced” (i. e., “causes” of it) as opposed to focus on “the content of these products themselves” (Wuthnow and Witten 1988: 5, 65, italics omitted).
