Concept information
Preferred term
temperance
Definition
- Temperance refers to the practice of drinking alcohol moderately or abstaining from it altogether. As a movement, it became influential in the first decades of the 19th century and reached its apex with the adoption of Prohibition in 1919. [Source: The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia; Temperance]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/temperance
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