ABSTRACT
Reprinted from “Moral Passage: The Symbolic Process in Public Designations of Deviance” Social Problems 15 (Fall 1967): 175-88 with permission of The Society for the Study of Social Problems and the author. Joseph R. Gusfield is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Sociology, University of California at San Diego. This article is one product of his continuing interest in the sociological study of societal reactions to drinking and of the temperance movement in particular. He also has made contributions to the fields of social stratification, political sociology, social movements, higher education, and comparative sociology. His books include Symbolic Crusade: Status, Politics and the American Temperance Movement; Protest, Reform and Revolt: A Reader in Social Movements and Collective Action; and, with David Riesman and Zelda Gamson, Academic Values and Mass Education.
