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Symbolic Crusade : Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement [Paperback]

Joseph R. Gusfield (Author)

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As an interpretation of the temperance movement, the book is an unqualified success . . . in an area of study that has been characterized by either glib statements about the social bases of movements or fixation on phenomena of goal displacement and the iron law of oligarchy, this study represents a signal contribution.American Journal of Sociology --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Paperback: 198 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (1966)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0252745183
ISBN-13: 978-0252745188
Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces

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This review is from: Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement (Paperback)

This book has less to do with alcoholism than it has to do with being a basic sociological primer. Gusfield explains basic terminology and walks the reader through a sociological evaluation that could be used to examine any topic. Excellent!

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Our aim in this work is to understand how one issue of moral reform, that of alcohol consumption, has operated in the context of American political and social conflict. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
psychological expressivism, assimilative reform, coercive reformer, cultural fundamentalism, status politics, fundamentalist reaction, temperance people

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New York, United States, Prohibition Party, Anti-Saloon League, The Free Press, Eighteenth Amendment, Frances Willard, New Haven, Civil War, The Union Signal, University of Chicago Press, American Temperance, Max Weber, Quarterly Journal of Studies, Annie Wittenmyer, Richard Hofstadter, Yale University Press, David Riesman, Miss Willard, North Carolina, Origins of Prohibition, Oxford University Press, Sons of Temperance, Talcott Parsons, Yale Center of Alcohol Studies

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