Drugs in Adolescent Worlds: Burnouts to Straights

ISBN-13: 9780312042073 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 301 str.

B. Glassner;J. Loughlin

Opis

Drug use by adolescents is usually viewed as the result of personal vulnerability to peer pressures or drug pushers. This book provides a new perspective which is sociological rather than epidemiological, understanding patterns of drug-taking in the context of ordinary social interaction. In this social worlds analysis, adolescents' own concerns with boredom, depression, social identity, friendship, access to drugs, self-control and folk pharmacology replace the professionals' focus on deviant behaviour. Both drug-taking and drug-abstaining are analysed as decisions made within social worlds made up of peers and family.

Spis treści

List of Tables - Acknowledgements - Competing Explanations: Epidemiology, Politics, Social Worlds - A Methodology for Listening - Why do Adolescents Use Drugs? - How Adolescents Use Drugs - Distributing and Understanding Drugs - Why Adolescents Avoid Drugs: Light Users and Non-Users - Peer Pressure - Families - The Future - Seeing Defective Individuals - Seeing Social Worlds - Glossary - Appendix A: The Subjects - Bibliography - Index