641. Snow, David A. "A Dramaturgical Analysis of Movement Accommodation: Building Idiosyncracy Credit as a Movement Mobilization Strategy." Symbolic Interaction 2, 1979: 23-44.
Movements frequently attempt to gain respectability with their larger societies in order to attain a measure of "idiosyncracy credit" which will permit them some unmolested eccentricity. Tactics whereby a movement acts upon its society are little studied but are an important aspect of their nature, which cannot fully be understood without some comprehension of them. Methods of adapting to the larger society are also unstudied but are of equal importance.
Accommodation should not be considered as necessarily implying a specific political tendency or drift, since it may well be part of a (possibly latent) attempt to gain a measure of strategic freedom by a sort of symbolic reciprocity. By appearing not to oppose their host societies in important ways, such movements can expect to be left relatively alone by them.
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