Ethics and Alcohol

Robinson, Simon; Kenyon, Alexandra J.

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“…All of this goes beyond simplistic stakeholder theory, focused on response to stakeholder needs. Rather does it enable stakeholders to develop their responsibilities with others (Robinson and Kenyon, 2009).…”

Section: Implications For Pedagogymentioning

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Responsibility and integrity in the curriculum

Robinson

Dowson

2011

Journal of Global Responsibility

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the meaning of responsibility and how it might be integrated into the business school and university curriculum.Design/methodology/approachThe paper analyses responsibility in terms of interactive modes, involving imputability (critical agency connecting culture and meaning, through reflection on purpose, values and practice), accountability (involving capacity to give an account and to handle plural accountability), and moral liability (involving responsibility for people, environment and practice, requiring shared and negotiated responsibility). This is related to employability and integrity, and then to practice in the curriculum.FindingsThe paper argues that the theory and practice of responsibility is able to integrate cognate concepts, different disciplines, different skills and dispositions and plural roles. The paper then argues that responsibility is most effectively engaged through a pedagogy of reflective practice and critical conversation, focused in personal, professional, civil, corporate and global responsibility, and provides a practical example.Originality/valueThe paper is original in the breadth of its view of responsibility, the stress on responsibility as focused in plurality and identity, and in the attempt to develop an integrated approach to teaching that focuses on responsibility.

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Section: Implications For Pedagogymentioning

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Responsibility and integrity in the curriculum

Robinson

Dowson

2011

Journal of Global Responsibility

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“…Drinking alcohol is a part of many people's leisure lives. It is something people choose to do, something with which they fill their time and spend their money, something that allows them to meet friends or relax or feel a part of something bigger (Hollands and Chatterton, 2002;Robinson and Kenyon, 2009). Many of the whisky enthusiasts on this research situated their own drinking habits within the moralising discourse of public policy, legitimising their own alcohol consumption but being strongly critical of the teenage (pseudo) folk devils of the tabloid press (Cohen, 1972;Critcher, 2011).…”

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“…Respectable Drinkers, Sensible Drinking, Serious Leisure 8 Robinson and Kenyon (2009) show that public moral outrage and hypocrisy over alcohol drinking in this country is not a recent phenomenon: in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, politicians, journalists, academics and Christian moralisers campaigned strongly against the availability of cheap alcohol and its dangerous effect on the poor (who were caricatured as being unable to drink in a responsible manner). In the last twenty years, however, moral concerns about alcohol-drinking and the impact of such activity on individual and societal wellbeing have become the dominant way of thinking about alcohol (Room, 2004) -despite the pressure from the alcohol industry against regulation (Jayne, Valentine and Holloway, 2008;Robinson and Kenyon, 2009) and the hypocrisy of ex-members of infamous Oxford drinking clubs like the Bullingdon telling others how much to drink.…”

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“…In the last twenty years, however, moral concerns about alcohol-drinking and the impact of such activity on individual and societal wellbeing have become the dominant way of thinking about alcohol (Room, 2004) -despite the pressure from the alcohol industry against regulation (Jayne, Valentine and Holloway, 2008;Robinson and Kenyon, 2009) and the hypocrisy of ex-members of infamous Oxford drinking clubs like the Bullingdon telling others how much to drink. All political parties advocate tough action against those who drink excessively, and there is a political consensus that alcohol drinking should be reduced and made 'disrespectable' in the same way cigarette smoking has been challenged (Jayne, Valentine and Holloway, 2008).…”

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Respectable drinkers, sensible drinking, serious leisure: single-malt whisky enthusiasts and the moral panic of irresponsible Others

Spracklen

2013

Contemporary Social Science

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In the public discourse of policy-makers and journalists, drinkers of (excessive) alcohol are portrayed either as irresponsible, immoral deviants, or as gullible victims.In other words, the public discourse engenders a moral panic about alcohol-crazed individuals, who become what Cohen (1972) identifies as folk devils: the Other, abusing alcohol to create anti-social disorder. However, alcohol-drinking was, is and continues to be an everyday practice in the leisure lives of the majority of people in the United Kingdom. In this research paper, I want to explore the serious leisure of whisky tasting to provide a counter to the myth of the alcohol-drinker as folk devil, to try to construct a new public discourse of sensible drinking. I will draw on ethnographic work at whisky tastings alongside interviews and analysis of on-line discourses. I show that participation in whisky-tasting events creates a safe space in which excessive amounts of alcohol are consumed, yet the norms of the particular habitus ensure that such drinking never leads to misbehaviour. In doing so, however, I will note that the respectability of whisky drinking is associated with its masculine, white, privileged habitus -the folk devil becomes someone else, someone Other.

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“…For the alcoholic this includes responsibility for changing how he or she relates to him or herself and others. Hence, the great Alcoholic Anonymous prayer seeks wisdom, courage, and serenity (Robinson and Kenyon, 2009). Importantly, this sets responsibility into an interactive social context, as Pesqueux ably shows in this special issue.…”

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Exploring responsibility

Robinson

Smith

2012

Journal of Global Responsibility

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Purpose -The purpose of this final paper in the special issue is to extend the critical conversation that has run through this journal about the meaning and practice of responsibility. It will draw together material from the other papers, summarise what is meant by responsibility and offer suggestions for further research. Design/methodology/approach -The paper takes the form of a critical analysis of the concept of responsibility in relation to practice. Findings -The paper argues for the importance of a holistic view of responsibility focused in individual and organisational practice of the virtues. Practical implications -The paper argues for increased dialogue between key stakeholders about the practice and development of responsibility, and for developments in pedagogy that will connect all aspects of ideas, values and practice. Social implications -There is typically a low level of appreciation of what responsibility means. This paper raises this awareness and identifies what responsibility looks like. It emphasises the importance of engraining a responsibility culture in the organisation, and continued dialogue between within, and beyond institutions. Originality/value -The paper provides a virtue-based approach that is based in critical dialogue, extending responsibility beyond conventional CSR thinking and providing the basis of what is a form of universal responsibility. This leads to a unique view of responsibility in culture and the curriculum.

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Ethics and Alcohol

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Responsibility and integrity in the curriculum

Responsibility and integrity in the curriculum

Respectable drinkers, sensible drinking, serious leisure: single-malt whisky enthusiasts and the moral panic of irresponsible Others

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