Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement

By Joseph R. Gusfield and GUSFIELD

Book Overview

The 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252013123
• ISBN13: 9780252013126
• Release Date: May 1986
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

excellent sociological review

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!