Drugs, Alcohol, and Social Problems

Name: Drugs, Alcohol, and Social Problems
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ISBN: 9780742528451

ISBN-10: 0742528456

ISBN-13: 9780742528451

Edition: 2003

Authors: James D. Orcutt, David R. Rudy, Patricia A. Adler, Richard Aniskiewicz, Jerald G. Backman

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This editied collection includes 14 articles that exemplify the best of sociological scholarship on drug & alcohol problems. The readings strike a balance between constructionist, epidemiological & ethnographic approaches to the study of drinking, drug use, & related problems.

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/3/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Patricia A. Adler is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Social Construction of Drug and Alcohol Problems



Constructing the Ownership of Social Problems: Fun and Profit in the Welfare State




Deviant Drinking as Disease: Alcoholism as a Social Accomplishment




Shocking Numbers and Graphic Accounts: Quantified Images of Drug Problems in the Print Media




Political and Ideological Contexts



Comparative Ideologies and Alcoholism: The Protestant and Proletarian Ethics




Setting the Public Agenda: "Street Crime" and Drug Use in American Politics




Truth and DARE: Tracking Drug Education to Graduation and as Symbolic Politics




Social Patterns: Epidemiological Research



Explaining Racial/Ethnic Differences in Adolescent Drug Use: The Impact of Background and Lifestyle




Drinking by Black and White Women: Results from a National Survey




Race, Class, and Gender Differences in Substance Abuse: Evidence of Middle-Class/Underclass Polarization among Black Males




Social Worlds: Qualitative Research



You Can't Help but Get Stoned: Notes on the Social Organization of Marijuana Smoking




Shifts and Oscillations in Deviant Careers: The Case of Upper-Level Drug Dealers and Smugglers




Links to Other Social Problems



The "Drunken Bum" Theory of Wife Beating




Drugs-Crime Connections: Elaborations from the Life Histories of Hard-Core Heroin Addicts




Social Misery and the Sanctions of Substance Abuse: Confronting HIV Risk Among Homeless Heroin Addicts in San Francisco



Index


About the Editors