Contents

INTRODUCTION

1 SOCIAL STATUS AND THE TEMPERANCE ETHIC
Class and Status    
Class and Status Politics   
Status Movements   
The Status Significance of Alcohol and Abstinence 
Life Styles and the Ethic of Temperance 

2 STATUS CONTROL AND MOBILITY, 1826-60  
Temperance as Social Control 
Temperance as Social Mobility
Temperance as a Political Symbol  
A Note on Religious Motives and Sociological Reductionism

3 ASSIMILATIVE REFORM AND SOCIAL DOMINANCE
Disinterested Reforrn and Types of Nonconformity  
Assimilative Reform   
Temperance and Christian Progressivism   
Temperance and the Assimilative Invitation 

4 COERCIVE REFORM AND CULTURAL CONFLICT   
Social Criticism in the WCTU    
Populism and Coercive Temperance Reform   
Polarization and the Prohibition Campaigns   

5 MORAL INDIGNATION AND STATUS CONFLICT   
Indignation and Patterned Evasion of Norms  
Prohibition: Symbol of Middle-Class Domination  
Repeal and Status Loss 
Moral Indignation and the Crisis of Legitimacy 

6 STATUS POLITICS AND MIDDLE-CLASS PROTEST    
The Fundamentalist Response to Mass Society   
Political Fundamentalism and Temperance   
The Extremist Response: Limited and Expressed   
The Dilemma of the Temperance Movement 

7 A DRAMATISTIC THEORY OF STATUS POLITICS   
Symbolic Issues in Politics    
Status as a Public Issue   
Political Models and Status Politics
The Volatility of Status Politics

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