<i>Binge</i> Drinking: Not the Word of Choice

Goodhart, Fern Walter; Lederman, Linda C.; Stewart, Lea P.; Laitman, Lisa

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“…The extant literature has focused on the sociodemographic characteristics of college student drinkers, the rates of binge drinking, the reasons for this behavior, and its negative consequences. A variety of studies have documented the ubiquitous nature and prevalence of college binge drinking behavior (e.g., Dimeff et al 1995; Goodhart et al 2003; Naimi et al 2003; Wechsler et al 2002; Young et al 2005). Drawing on Wechsler et al’s (1994) original definition of “binge” drinking (five alcoholic drinks in a row for males, four drinks for females at least once in a two-week period) public health officials and social scientists have reported relatively stable rates of binge drinking among college students.…”

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Sober as Deviant

Herman-Kinney

Kinney

2012

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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Social scientists have conducted numerous studies on college students’ binge drinking behavior. They have not, however, conducted any systematic studies of nondrinkers on college campuses. Our study focuses on the everyday experiences of nondrinking undergraduates who stay “dry” while living on “wet” campuses. We use the symbolic interactionist notions of identity work and deviance to show how nondrinkers employ a variety of stigma management strategies to avoid being labeled deviant. These strategies include the procurement of drinking props, fictive storytelling, alteration of personal appearance, concealment, disclosure, and capitulation. We extend the sociological study of identity work and deviance by documenting how nondrinkers experience and manage stigma and negotiate positive social and personal identities. Moreover, we apply the concepts of “negative deviants,” “rate busters,” and “positive deviants” to delineate how nondrinkers are viewed by different audiences on a “wet” campus.

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Sober as Deviant

Herman-Kinney

Kinney

2012

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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“…The way binge drinking is socially constructed among young people is almost in direct opposition to the way the same phenomenon is constructed in research and professional literature. The gap between young people's experiences and professional discourse threatens to thwart efforts to promote safer alcohol consumption practices, so much so that researchers and health professionals have recently been criticised for contributing to the failure of young people to identify binge drinking as harmful (Goodhart, Lederman, Stewart & Laitman, 2003). In order to overcome this problem and to design more effective public health messages that will resonate with the target audience it is necessary to have an in-depth understanding of the way young people construct drinking.…”

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“…In order to overcome this problem and to design more effective public health messages that will resonate with the target audience it is necessary to have an in-depth understanding of the way young people construct drinking. In particular it is important to identify the types of discourses that normalise harmful patterns of consumption (Goodhart et al, 2003). The identification of these discursive constructions has important implications for current health promotion strategies (Gillies, 1999).…”

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Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 7th Advances in Qualitative Methods International Conference Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia 13–16 July 2006

2006

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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A deep exploration of what the term "critical" implicates in critical theory and critical ethnography takes us much further than the practice of social and cultural critique. It reveals profound implications with respect to issues and themes long treated primarily within spiritual traditions. These make a long list, including the nature of consciousness, the self, self-other relations, meaning, knowledge, truth, certainty, love, self-realization, paradox, the limits of reason and representation, and much more. This talk will explore such connections, arguing that spirituality is deeply and necessarily entailed within the core philosophical structures of contemporary critical theory and related research practices. Of course, "spirituality" is a term used in diverse ways within diverse traditions. Certain aspects of theistic traditions can be understood and appreciated, with some reinterpretation, through contemporary critical theory. But the closest connection that this philosophical and methodological orientation has with extant spiritual traditions is found with the Chan and Zen Buddhist schools of China and Japan, some of the philosophies associated with yoga in India, and some of the teachings we find in Sufism and Western mysticism. These are spiritual traditions that emphasize practices rather than beliefs. The spiritual content in critical theory can be uncovered in a variety of ways, but in this talk the role that narratives play in the construction of self, other and world will be emphasized. Narratives are chronic to everyday human life and thought. Narratives are, and must be, primary objects of study in qualitative research projects. Yet narratives ultimately fail to fulfil those features of human desire that drive their chronic construction and reproduction. Nietzsche called this aspect of human motivation the "figurative drive." The figurative drive is related to Hegel's writings on consciousness in which the desire for recognition is a constituting structure of self-awareness. It is related to the concept of self-actualization as promoted by the humanistic and transpersonal schools of psychology. The ultimate and necessary failure of the figurative drive to realize its telos through the very production of "figures"-narratives and pre-narrative structures in thought-is well illustrated in deconstruction, poststructural writings on signification, and the philosophy of repetition. These streams within Western thought provide mirrors, representational mirrors, of spiritual practices whose goals include freedom from representation. "The narrative horizon" is an expression meant to signify where knowledge as representation ends, where explicating the implicit toward the explicit terminates, where reason stops but points ahead. Its sense will be explained more precisely in this presentation. It is deeply implicated in the concept of "critical" core to critical methodological theory and it is something with which all people, in everyday contexts of life, must implicitly come to terms. What lies beyond the n...

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“…The second issue concerns the data that are collected to measure binge drinking. Aside from the problems with definition discussed above there are, as has been noted elsewhere, numerous additional issues with how binge drinking is conceptualized and measured (DeJong, 2001;Goodhart et al, 2003). The GHS and therefore the SHS use two measures of alcohol consumption, average weekly consumption and consumption on the heaviest drinking day in the week prior to interview.…”

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