Drug Alcohol
Drug and Alcohol Consumption As Functions of Social Structures: A Cross-Cultural Sociology HV5801
2004-065635
0-7734-6187-6
Drug and alcohol consumption as functions of social structures; a cross-cultural sociology.
Hawdon, James E. (Mellen studies in sociology; v.47)
Edwin Mellen Pr., [c]2005
400 p.
$129.95
Hawdon (sociology, Virginia Polytechnic and State U.) bypasses pretty much every aspect of illegal drugs and their use that readers have come to expect in books about them, and instead applies sociological theory to the study of drugs. He relates drug use not to self-esteem, self-control, deviant peer relations, or any of the other usual suspects, but to levels of development and modernization, institutional differentiation, and social stratification. He explains variations in rates of use with such concepts as social mobility and heterogeneity, and accounts for attitudes toward drugs and drug users with sociological concepts such as social and cultural distance. His goal is to augment rather than replace the many studies of drugs and crime, chemistry, biology, and psychology. The text is double spaced.
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