Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance MovementThe important role of the Temperance movement throughout American history is analyzed as clashes and conflicts between rival social systems, cultures, and status groups. Sometimes the "dry" is winning the classic battle for prestige and political power. Sometimes, as in today's society, he is losing. This significant contribution to the theory of status conflict also discloses the importance of political acts as symbolic acts and offers a dramatistic theory of status politics, Gusfield provides a useful addition to the economic and psychological modes of analysis current in the study of political and social movements. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Social Status and the Temperance Ethic | 13 |
Status Control and Mobility 182660 | 36 |
Assimilative Reform and Social Dominance | 61 |
Coercive Reform and Cultural Conflict | 87 |
Moral Indignation and Status Conflict | 111 |
Status Politics and MiddleClass Protest | 139 |
A Dramatistic Theory of Status Politics | 166 |
Epilogue | 189 |
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