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Editors Note: In 2007, The Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame began sponsorship of an annual award named for its first recipient, John McCarthy. The John D. McCarthy Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Scholarship of Social Movements and Collective Action has subsequently been presented to Verta Taylor (2008), Mayer Zald (2009), and Doug McAdam (2010). As part of each year's award ceremony, the McCarthy Award winner gives a public lecture that reflects on her or his past contributions to the field of social movement research, while also looking forward to promising lines of future inquiry. The publication in Mobilization of these lectures highlights both the important role recipients have played in shaping the field of social movement research, as well as their unique perspectives on where the field is headed. To this end each award winner has generously collaborated with Mobilization in the publication of an article based on the original McCarthy Award lecture. We are pleased to share Mayer N. Zald's contribution in this issue. McCarthy Award lectures from other recipients will appear in future issues as they become available to us. Adapted from the source document.

Critical Management Studies has taken on an institutional embodiment in the last four years, but builds on earlier developments in the intellectual culture of academia and of professional schools. This essay traces the development of CMS in the context of American professional schools. It draws upon recent thinking in the sociology of science and the sociology of professions. In particular, it examines processes internal to disciplines and professions and external to them in the larger society, across disciplinary boundaries, and in intellectual discourse. Attention is paid to those processes that hold disciplines and sub-disciplines in their orbits or trajectories, and those processes and events that shock and redefine orbits. The paper concludes with a discussion of two alternative trajectories for CMS-one where it remains relatively marginal to management education, another where it becomes central.

A reply to comments by Bert Klandermans & Mario Diani on Zald's "Ideologically Structured Action: An Enlarged Agenda for Social Movement Research" (all, 2000) notes that they both agree that social movement scholars should focus more on ideology & its ramifications, but they disagree about the extent of change needed. It is contended that both men fail to appreciate the enormous changes to social-movement-related phenomena that have incapacitated current methods of analysis. Definitions of social movements are discussed, maintaining that Klandermans's definition of political process is linked to the protest event as a unit of analysis, which, although important, overlooks other types of collective challenges. Diani's push for a relational/network approach to social movements also falls short by not encompassing perspectives of others besides activists, eg, bystanders. It is argued that adopting an ideologically structured action approach to social movements does not demand a paradigm shift but simply extends the definition of social movements to include strategic action in culture & ideology. 15 References. J. Lindroth

The conceptual definitions used in social science often need adjusting to allow scholars to hone in on issues that are obscured under other definitions & to open research agendas. Here, it is argued that a focus on social movements as ideologically structured action accomplishes two objectives: (1) It allows one to incorporate cultural/cognitive components of action into its core definition. (2) It helps to broaden the research agenda to include a deeper & fuller view of socialization to social movement ideology & to social movement-related action that takes place in a variety of institutional arenas, including electoral competition, legislative processes, bureaucratic agencies, & executive offices. 57 References. Adapted from the source document.