Symbolic Crusade : Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement

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Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1986-04-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Illinois Pr
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1(12)
Social Status and the Temperance Ethic
13(23)
Class and Status
13(3)
Class and Status Politics
16(4)
Status Movements
20(4)
The Status Significance of Alcohol and Abstinence
24(5)
Life Styles and the Ethic of Temperance
29(7)
Status Control and Mobility, 1826-60
36(25)
Temperance as Social Control
36(8)
Temperance as Social Mobility
44(7)
Temperance as a Political Symbol
51(6)
A Note on Religious Motives and Sociological Reductionism
57(4)
Assimilative Reform and Social Dominance
61(26)
Disinterested Reform and Types of Nonconformity
62(7)
Assimilative Reform
69(3)
Temperance and Christian Progressivism
72(7)
Temperance and the Assimilative Invitation
79(8)
Coercive Reform and Cultural Conflict
87(24)
Social Criticism in the WCTU
88(6)
Populism and Coercive Temperance Reform
94(4)
Polarization and the Prohibition Campaigns
98(13)
Moral Indignation and Status Conflict
111(28)
Indignation and Patterned Evasion of Norms
112(5)
Prohibition: Symbol of Middle-Class Domination
117(9)
Repeal and Status Loss
126(5)
Moral Indignation and the Crisis of Legitimacy
131(8)
Status Politics and Middle-Class Protest
139(27)
The Fundamentalist Response to Mass Society
140(7)
Political Fundamentalism and Temperance
147(7)
The Extremist Response: Limited and Expressed
154(6)
The Dilemma of the Temperance Movement
160(6)
A Dramatistic Theory of Status Politics
166(23)
Symbolic Issues in Politics
167(5)
Status as a Public Issue
172(5)
Political Models and Status Politics
177(6)
The Volatility of Status Politics
183(6)
Epilogue 189(22)
Bibliography to Epilogue 211(4)
Index 215

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