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Desire and Craving: A Cultural Theory of Alcoholism

Desire and Craving: A Cultural Theory of Alcoholism

Paperback

Series: Suny New Social Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

Addiction & RecoveryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0791410986
ISBN13: 9780791410981
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Oct 14 1992
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

This book is an ethnographic analysis of alcoholism, focusing on the importance of cultural explanations of heavy drinking in modern society. As a starting point, Alasuutari uses a cognitive concept of frames in order to study the social and cultural boundedness of alcohol related problems. The ethnographic narratives concentrate on specific cases, but stress the theoretical level of analysis, and reveal the ways in which the alcoholism frame is linked with Western culture and society. Alasuutari also provides an analysis of the role of the temperance movement and ideology in Finland, and the rise of the distinction between normal and pathological drinking.

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