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.
- ISBN10 0252013212
- ISBN13 9780252013218
- Publish Date 1 June 1986 (first published 18 June 1980)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 April 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Illinois Press
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Language English