New Temperance - The American Obsession With Sin and Vice

The New Temperance questions the constant mantra in the media and in political debates about the dangers of personal behavior and challenges America's love affair with repression. It reviews the Republican strategy on sin developed in the 1960s and 1970s.

List of contents

The New Temperance -- Déjà Vu All Over Again -- Temperance and the Social Construction of Risk -- "The Slippery Slope," or Scaring Them Straight -- Getting "Lean and Mean's": The Middle-Class Return to Respectability -- Manufacturing Consensus: The Politics of Puritanism -- From Loyalty Oaths to Urine Tests

About the author

David Wagner is associate professor of social work and sociology at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of two previous books, including Checkerboard Square (Westview, 1993), winner of the 1993 C. Wright Mills Award.

Summary

The New Temperance questions the constant mantra in the media and in political debates about the dangers of personal behavior and challenges America's love affair with repression. It reviews the Republican strategy on sin developed in the 1960s and 1970s.

Product details

• Authors: David Wagner
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.1997
• EAN: 9780813325699
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-2569-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Soziologie, Öffentliche Verwaltung, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Politik der National- Zentral- oder Bundesregierung, Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie