TY  - BOOK
AU  - Orcutt,James D.
AU  - Rudy,David R.
TI  - Drugs, alcohol, and social problems
SN  - 0742528456 (pbk.) :
AV  - HV5825 .D7798 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Lanham, Md.
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield
KW  - Drug abuse
KW  - United States
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Alcoholism
KW  - Substance abuse
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Social Construction of Drug and Alcohol Problems -- Constructing the Ownership of Social Problems: Fun and Profit in the Welfare State / Joseph R. Gusfield -- Deviant Drinking as Disease: Alcoholism as a Social Accomplishment / Joseph W. Schneider -- Shocking Numbers and Graphic Accounts: Quantified Images of Drug Problems in the Print Media / James D. Orcutt, J. Blake Turner -- Political and Ideological Contexts -- Comparative Ideologies and Alcoholism: The Protestant and Proletarian Ethics / Timothy P. Rouse, Prabha N. Unnithan -- Setting the Public Agenda: "Street Crime" and Drug Use in American Politics / Katherine Beckett -- Truth and DARE: Tracking Drug Education to Graduation and as Symbolic Politics / Earl Wysong, Richard Aniskiewicz, David Wright -- Social Patterns: Epidemiological Research -- Explaining Racial/Ethnic Differences in Adolescent Drug Use: The Impact of Background and Lifestyle / John M. Wallace, Jr., Jerald G. Bachman -- Drinking by Black and White Women: Results from a National Survey / Denise Herd -- Race, Class, and Gender Differences in Substance Abuse: Evidence of Middle-Class/Underclass Polarization among Black Males / Kellie E. M. Barr, Michael P. Farrell, Grace M. Barnes, John W. Welte -- Social Worlds: Qualitative Research -- You Can't Help but Get Stoned: Notes on the Social Organization of Marijuana Smoking / Don H. Zimmerman, D. Lawrence Wieder -- Shifts and Oscillations in Deviant Careers: The Case of Upper-Level Drug Dealers and Smugglers / Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler -- Links to Other Social Problems -- The "Drunken Bum" Theory of Wife Beating / Glenda Kaufman Kantor, Murray A. Straus -- Drugs-Crime Connections: Elaborations from the Life Histories of Hard-Core Heroin Addicts / Charles E. Faupel, Carl B. Klockars -- Social Misery and the Sanctions of Substance Abuse: Confronting HIV Risk Among Homeless Heroin Addicts in San Francisco / Philippe Bourgois, Mark Lettiere, James Quesada
N2  - 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!
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