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: 9780742528451
• ISBN10: 0742528456
• Format: Paperback
• 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	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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