Title: The new temperance
Description: The New Temperance contrasts the new obsession with personal behavior in America during the last two decades with the brief period of relative freedom in the 1960s and early 1970s and suggests strong consistencies with our past. In particular, the late twentieth century appears to have re-created the mood of the Victorian and Progressive Periods, when social movements such as the Temperance, Social Purity, and Vice and Vigilance movements held sway.

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.
Subjects: Behavior modification, Conservatism, Moral conditions, Political correctness, Temperance, Conservatisme, Sobriedad, Conservadurismo, Abstinenz, Sociale controle, Modificación de la conducta, Condiciones morales, Moraal, Kultur, United states, moral conditions, Tempérance, Modification du comportement, Politiquement correct (Mouvement), SOCIAL SCIENCE, Anthropology, Cultural, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Cultural Policy, Popular Culture
Places: United States