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,

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ISBN: 9780742528444 | 0742528448
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/3/2003

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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!

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

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PART I: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL PROBLEMS

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

(12)

Joseph R. Gusfield

2 Deviant Drinking as Disease: Alcoholism as a Social Accomplishment

(16)

Joseph W. Schneider

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

(18)

James D. Orcutt and J. Blake Turner

PART II: POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS

(68)

4 Comparative Ideologies and Alcoholism: The Protestant and Proletarian Ethics

(16)

Timothy R. Rouse and Prabha N. Unnithan

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

(22)

Katherine Beckett

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

(28)

Earl Wysong, Richard Aniskiewicz, and David Wright

PART III: SOCIAL PATTERNS: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

121

(64)

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

123

(30)

John M. Wallace, Jr., and Jerald G. Bachman

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

153

(14)

Denise Herd

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

167

(18)

Kellie E. M. Barr, Michael P. Farrell, Grace M. Barnes, and John W. Welte

PART IV: SOCIAL WORLDS: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

185

(32)

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

187

(12)

Don H. Zimmerman and D. Lawrence Wieder

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

199

(18)

Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler

PART V: LINKS TO OTHER SOCIAL PROBLEMS

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12 The "Drunken Bum" Theory of Wife Beating

219

(20)

Glenda Kaufman Kantor and Murray A. Straus

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

239

(18)

Charles E. Faupel and Carl B. Klockars

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

257

(22)

Philippe Bourgois, Mark Lettiere, and James Quesada

Index

279

(10)

About the Editors

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