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'Spiel Appeal' offers a cultural reading of one important element of the youth consciousness which underpinned events in West Germany between 1967 and 1969 and which shaped the legacy of those years: drug consumption. Drugs were part and parcel of a new vision of leftism, primarily among the nation's young adults, that helped enable West Germany's 1968. Sixty-eighters did not use recreational drugs as a simple form of juvenile protest or as a pure escape, nor was drug use a regrettable excess, as some rueful sixty-eighters later argued. In the individual life stories of sixty-eighters, as reflected in both autobiographies and novels, the drugs' primary roles were as facilitators of community and 'awakening'. They were essential elements of the playful leftist counterculture which youth and leftists invented concretely throughout Germany at the onset of the 1970s in the form of urban sub-cultures and alternative 'scenes', the invention of which constitutes one of the most important social legacies of 1968.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Part I: Strategies -- 1. Introduction to Part I: Strategies of Theory Construction -- 2. Generalizing and Historical Orientations in Sociology -- 3. A Working Strategy for Constructing Theories: State Organizing Processes -- 4. Theoretical Structures and the Micro-Macro Problem -- 5. Theoretical Research Programs: A Reformulation -- Part II: Status Processes -- 6. Introduction to Part II: Status Processes -- 7. Formation of Reward Expectations in Status Situations -- 8. Status Cues, Expectations, and Behavior -- 9. The Evolution of Status Expectations: A Theoretical Extension -- 10. Status Inconsistency in Task Situations: A Test of Four Status Processing Principles -- 11. Gender and Interpersonal Task Behaviors: Status Expectation Accounts -- Part III: Power and Legitimation Processes -- 12. Introduction to Part III: Power and Legitimation Processes -- 13. Expectations, Shared Awareness, and Power -- 14. Uncertainty, Potential Power, and Nondecisions -- 15. Legitimacy and the Stability of Authority -- 16. Consensus, Dissensus, and Justification -- Contributors -- Index