Sociology of moral regulation has been interested in different kinds of morally charged social movements, such as the temperance movement, to investigate the social reasons why people take part in such movements. One answer is provided by Joseph Gusfield’s classic analysis of the American temperance movement, The Symbolic Crusade, published in 1963. The status politics theory developed therein provides a potential explanation of participation in moral regulation movements. This paper reconstructs the general logic of status politics explanations from an actor-centred perspective, explicating the actor image and the status anxiety mechanism inherent in the theory. Some of the problems discussed include third-person explanations and proof of status anxiety. With due caution, status politics theory provides one alternative for explaining mobilisation in moral regulation movements as well as populist politics.

道德规范社会学一直对不同类型的道德社会运动感兴趣，例如节制运动，以研究人们参与此类运动的社会原因。约瑟夫·古斯菲尔德 (Joseph Gusfield) 对美国节制运动的经典分析《象征十字军》 ( The Symbolic Crusade ) 提供了一个答案，发表于 1963 年。其中发展的地位政治理论提供了参与道德规范运动的潜在解释。本文从以演员为中心的视角重构地位政治解释的一般逻辑，阐释该理论所固有的演员形象和地位焦虑机制。讨论的一些问题包括第三人称解释和状态焦虑的证明。谨慎起见，地位政治理论为解释道德规范运动和民粹主义政治中的动员提供了一种选择。