Editor's Choice: Defining "drinking culture": A critical review of its meaning and connotation in social research on alcohol problems. (3rd July 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Editor's Choice: Defining "drinking culture": A critical review of its meaning and connotation in social research on alcohol problems. (3rd July 2016)
- Main Title:
- Editor's Choice: Defining "drinking culture": A critical review of its meaning and connotation in social research on alcohol problems
- Authors:
- Savic, Michael
Room, Robin
Mugavin, Janette
Pennay, Amy
Livingston, Michael - Abstract:
- Abstract: There has been growing academic interest in "drinking cultures" as targets of investigation and intervention, driven often by policy discourse about "changing the drinking culture". In this article, we conduct a critical review of the alcohol research literature to examine how the concept of drinking culture has been understood and employed, particularly in work that views alcohol through a problem lens. Much of the alcohol research discussion on drinking culture has focussed on national drinking cultures in which the cultural entity of concern is the nation or society as a whole (macro-level). In this respect, there has been a comparative tradition concerned with categorising drinking cultures into typologies (e.g. "wet" and "dry" cultures). Although overtly focused on patterns of drinking and problems at the macro-level, this tradition also points to a multifaceted understanding of drinking cultures. Even though norms about drinking are not uniform within and across countries there has been relatively less focus in the alcohol research literature on cultural entities below the level of the culture as a whole (micro-level). We conclude by offering a working definition, which underscores the multidimensional and interactive nature of the drinking culture concept.
- Is Part Of:
- Drugs. Volume 23:Number 4(2016:Aug.)
- Journal:
- Drugs
- Issue:
- Volume 23:Number 4(2016:Aug.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 23, Issue 4 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 23
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0023-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 270
- Page End:
- 282
- Publication Date:
- 2016-07-03
- Subjects:
- Alcohol -- culture -- drinking culture -- public health -- review
Health education -- Periodicals
Medical policy -- Periodicals
Substance abuse -- Periodicals
Éducation sanitaire -- Périodiques
Politique sanitaire -- Périodiques
Polytoxicomanie -- Périodiques
362.291705 - Journal URLs:
- http://informahealthcare.com/loi/dep ↗
http://informahealthcare.com ↗ - DOI:
- 10.3109/09687637.2016.1153602 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0968-7637
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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