Contents

Class and Status    
Class and Status Politics   
Status Movements   
The Status Significance of Alcohol and Abstinence 
Life Styles and the Ethic of Temperance 

  
Temperance as Social Control 
Temperance as Social Mobility
Temperance as a Political Symbol  
A Note on Religious Motives and Sociological Reductionism

Disinterested Reforrn and Types of Nonconformity  
Assimilative Reform   
Temperance and Christian Progressivism   
Temperance and the Assimilative Invitation 

 
Social Criticism in the WCTU    
Populism and Coercive Temperance Reform   
Polarization and the Prohibition Campaigns   

Indignation and Patterned Evasion of Norms  
Prohibition: Symbol of Middle-Class Domination  
Repeal and Status Loss 
Moral Indignation and the Crisis of Legitimacy 

    
The Fundamentalist Response to Mass Society   
Political Fundamentalism and Temperance   
The Extremist Response: Limited and Expressed   
The Dilemma of the Temperance Movement 

Symbolic Issues in Politics    
Status as a Public Issue   
Political Models and Status Politics
The Volatility of Status Politics

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