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,

• ISBN13: 9780742528444
• ISBN10: 0742528448
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-03
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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	vii
Introduction	1	(4)
PART I: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL PROBLEMS	5	(48)
1 Constructing the Ownership of Social Problems: Fun and Profit in the Welfare State	7	(12)
Joseph R. Gusfield
2 Deviant Drinking as Disease: Alcoholism as a Social Accomplishment	19	(16)
Joseph W. Schneider
3 Shocking Numbers and Graphic Accounts: Quantified Images of Drug Problems in the Print Media	35	(18)
James D. Orcutt and J. Blake Turner
PART II: POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS	53	(68)
4 Comparative Ideologies and Alcoholism: The Protestant and Proletarian Ethics	55	(16)
Timothy R. Rouse and Prabha N. Unnithan
5 Setting the Public Agenda: "Street Crime" and Drug Use in American Politics	71	(22)
Katherine Beckett
6 Truth and DARE: Tracking Drug Education to Graduation and as Symbolic Politics	93	(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	217	(62)
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	289