ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book suggests that early in the history of a social problem, the emergence of a new sector of Social movement organizations (SMO) or set of SMO sectors serves to extend the substantive agenda and the political reach of the focal movement. It discusses that how innovation and diffusion is accomplished is, at least in part, a function of the structure of the organizational field at a given point in its evolution. The book argues that over time SMO sectors achieve increasingly high degrees of structuration. It describes an organizational field considerably more advanced in its evolution than the gay and lesbian antiviolence projects. The book proposes the structured lines of communication evident in organizational fields that have achieved a high degree of structuration channel innovative cultural forms developed outside the organizational field in predictable ways.
