Drugs, Alcohol, and Social Problems
by Orcutt, James D.; Rudy, David R.; Adler, Patricia A.; Adler, Peter; Aniskiewicz, Richard; Backman, Jerald G.; Barnes, Grace M.; Barr, Kellie E.M.; Beckett, Katherine; Bourgois, Philippe; Farrell, Michael P.; Faupel, Charles E.; Gusfield, Joseph R.; Herd,Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-09-03
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary
The 14 clearly written articles included in this collection exemplify the best of sociological scholarship on drug and alcohol problems. The readings strike a balance between constructionist, epidemiological, and ethnographic approaches to the study of drinking, drug use, and related problems such as domestic violence, crime, and the spread of HIV/AIDS. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Social Construction of Drug and Alcohol Problems | p. 5 |
| Constructing the Ownership of Social Problems: Fun and Profit in the Welfare State | p. 7 |
| Deviant Drinking as Disease: Alcoholism as a Social Accomplishment | p. 19 |
| Shocking Numbers and Graphic Accounts: Quantified Images of Drug Problems in the Print Media | p. 35 |
| Political and Ideological Contexts | p. 53 |
| Comparative Ideologies and Alcoholism: The Protestant and Proletarian Ethics | p. 55 |
| Setting the Public Agenda: "Street Crime" and Drug Use in American Politics | p. 71 |
| Truth and DARE: Tracking Drug Education to Graduation and as Symbolic Politics | p. 93 |
| Social Patterns: Epidemiological Research | p. 121 |
| Explaining Racial/Ethnic Differences in Adolescent Drug Use: The Impact of Background and Lifestyle | p. 123 |
| Drinking by Black and White Women: Results from a National Survey | p. 153 |
| Race, Class, and Gender Differences in Substance Abuse: Evidence of Middle-Class/Underclass Polarization among Black Males | p. 167 |
| Social Worlds: Qualitative Research | p. 185 |
| You Can't Help but Get Stoned: Notes on the Social Organization of Marijuana Smoking | p. 187 |
| Shifts and Oscillations in Deviant Careers: The Case of Upper-Level Drug Dealers and Smugglers | p. 199 |
| Links to Other Social Problems | p. 217 |
| The "Drunken Bum" Theory of Wife Beating | p. 219 |
| Drugs-Crime Connections: Elaborations from the Life Histories of Hard-Core Heroin Addicts | p. 239 |
| Social Misery and the Sanctions of Substance Abuse: Confronting HIV Risk Among Homeless Heroin Addicts in San Francisco | p. 257 |
| Index | p. 279 |
| About the Editors | p. 289 |
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