Abstract

This study has focused on the institutional logics that influenced how higher education scholars patrolled and shaped the conceptual boundaries of college student movement and activism research published between the years 1967 and 2008. A keyword search of four prestigious higher education journals (The Journal of Higher Education, Review of Higher Education, Higher Education, and Research in Higher Education) produced a preliminary sample of 538 original research articles published between 1967 and 2008 that included some discussion of college student movements and/or activism. The systematic scanning of the abstracts and findings of each of the 538 articles resulted in the selection of a final sample of 48 articles that included college student movements and/or activism as a topical field of interest. A discourse analysis of the final sample of articles revealed how higher education scholars have through their research shaped and reshaped the conceptual boundaries of college student movement and activis...

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