Residents of "The Village," a small Kansas community, drink in private but support a "temperance" morality in public. This public, "official" morality is first examined as a collective reality and is then used to develop a functional hypothesis which test the relevance of this kind of phenomenon for the systems in which it occurs.
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Charles K. Warriner (1958) studied this question.