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Symbolic Crusade
Gusfield
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Description for Symbolic Crusade
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 310.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252013126
SKU
V9780252013126
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99-1
About Gusfield
Joseph R. Gusfield, a longtime member of the sociology department at the University of California at San Diego, is currently a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in California. He is the author of The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking, Driving, and the Symbolic Order and Community: A Critical Response.
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