ABSTRACT
Social movements (SMOs) do more compellingly impose the discipline of clear empirical referents. They are more definitely corporate actors and because of the clarity of their memberships and leaderships and their functioning, they can be more reasonably be viewed as having motives, intentions, and strategies. By "richness" mean the degree to which a propositional answer provides an orderly and generic dissection of the ongoing substance of an SMO. Starting in the early 1970s, many movement scholars began to construe movement studies as composed of opposing "schools," "theories," "models," or "perspectives" as regards the causes of social movements and joining them. As Gusfield's characterization indicates, cumulation requires a framework into which inquiries fit contexts that tell what already exists and what therefore might exist. Cumulated qualitative research with such features departs from some existing conceptions of appropriate expositional forms and copyright fair use.
