Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Lit Review 3

Lit review 3

Visual:
One of the authors is an expert on college drinking and studied alcohol and drug consumption.

Citation:
Demers, Andree. "College Alcohol-Control Policies and Students' Alcohol Consumption: A Matter of Exposure." Www.Heinonline.org. Hein Online, Mar. 2013. Web. 22 Oct. 2016.

Summary:
This article begins with the discussion on what factors influence drinking and how they relate to binge drinking. The author describes in detail that certain influences are associated with the year that the student is, what major the student is, and obviously the friends the student surrounds himself with. The article continues to talk about the dangers of drinking and gives examples of students that destroyed their lives because they drank too much in college and highschool. The article takes a turn and starts talking about how to prevent binge drinking and the policies toward drinking on college campuses. Later the article concludes with how the policies should change and how we should not condone college drinking.

Concept/ Value:
This article will help me examine the polices that we have on drinking on campus. This will help my research paper because i can discuss the relationship between the college and the student and how college campuses do not take enough initiative to control drinking habits on campus.

Quotes:

“In a recent priority report, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (2007) emphasized the need to increase cumulative knowledge about higher education institutions' leadership in alcohol control policies and their contributive role to the social production of college drinking.”

“Higher education institutions through their alcohol control policies offer such a distinctive normative frame for students' alcohol consumption.”


“Examination of both allocative and authoritative resources is critical to the appreciation of the nature of higher education institutions' authority underlying alcohol control policies and its influence on students' drinking practices and patterns.”

Lit Review 2

Lit Review 2

Visual:
This author is a PhD student at virginia tech studying alcohol and drug use, culture, and social theory.

Citation:
Byrd, Kaitland M. "Binge Drinking in and out of College: An Examination of Social Control and Differential Association on Binge Drinking Behaviors between College Students and Their Non-college Peers." Sociological Spectrum 36.4 (2016): 191-207. Taylor and Francis Online. Web. 11 Oct. 2016.

Summary:
This article compares the difference between drinking amongst people of the same age range. The only difference between people of the age range is whether or not they went to college or if they did not go to college. It is found that the kids that attend college have a higher consumption of alcohol. The study found that peer behavior had a huge impact on both non college and college students. The study also found that there is a difference in drinking behavior between the non college students and the college students



Concepts:
Social Control- This idea is talked about a lot within this article and it pertains to how social norms control how people behave. It also suggests that we as humans have a deviant personality naturally and that we do not engage in the deviant personality because of society

Differential Association: This idea pertains mostly to how peers can influence a decision made. Specifically, they talk about how peers can influence individuals to behave like a deviant and do bad things and make irresponsible decisions.


Value:
These concepts will help my research because it helps me see the issue at large through different perspectives. Specifically looking at how non college students drink and how peers influence each other to drink heavy/ binge drink. This will help me tie in the idea of the film industry portraying drinking in college and the influence of friends with drinking.

Quotes:

“The differences in the overall drinking behaviors of college students and their non-college peers supports the hypothesis that college students will drink more and the combination of social control and differential association can explain more of the variance in the behavior of college students.”(203)

“Amount of time spent at school did not affect the drinking behavior of college students.” (204)

“Eliminating binge drinking on college campuses does not seem feasible because excessive alcohol use occurs throughout the 18- to 22-year-old population, both on and off campus. Instead colleges should focus efforts on educating students about safe drinking practices such as drinking water while drinking alcohol, having a designated driver, and limiting the overall number of drinks that are consumed in one sitting. “ (205)


Lit review 1

Lit Review 1

Visual:
This author has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1996. He has written many articles in many areas.


Citation:

Gladwell, Malcolm. "Drinking Games." The New Yorker. Animals of Anthropolgy, 07 Feb. 2010. Web. 18 Oct. 2016.

Summary:
The article by Malcolm Gladwell describes his research on alcoholism in families from first generation italians relative to second or third generation italians. This article also focuses on how people drink as opposed to how much people drink. He gives the example of how Bolivians drink 180 proof rum and ever clear and would fall asleep as opposed to the aggressive type of behavior we in america associate with heavy drinking. Later he describes how two white haired men asked about the drinking styles in Bolivia and how they were shocked that no matter how much the Bolivians drank they stayed behaved and content.

Concepts/Value:
A huge key concept I read about was the idea of how people drank as opposed to how much people drank. This concept is very important to my research because distinguishing how people behave when they binge drink and how much they drink is an important concept when it comes to treating those who drink a lot. A huge issue is created when people dont behave and they drink alot.

Quotes:
“Around the middle of the last century, alcoholism began to be widely considered a disease: it was recognized that some proportion of the population was genetically susceptible to the effects of drinking. Policymakers, meanwhile, have become increasingly interested in using economic and legal tools to control alcohol-related behavior: that’s why the drinking age has been raised from eighteen to twenty-one, why drunk-driving laws have been toughened, and why alcohol is taxed heavily.”

“A dozen or so people would show up on Saturday night, and the party would proceed—often until everyone went back to work on Monday morning. The composition of the group was informal: sometimes people passing by would be invited. But the structure of the party was heavily ritualized.”

“The bigger surprise was what happened when the Camba drank. The Camba had weekly benders with laboratory-proof alcohol, and, Dwight Heath said, “There was no social pathology—none. No arguments, no disputes, no sexual aggression, no verbal aggression.”


Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Blog #3




These links provide facts and information about drinking in college along with a perspective on the student side of drinking in college. I think these academic sources will help me see both perspectives on alcoholism in college so i can use counter arguments in my paper

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Blog #2: Scouting the Territory

1)  My topic did change since blog #1 it will be about alcoholism in college and how it affects students. I changed my topic because I couldn't find enough information for my previous topic.

2) I found alot of articles talking about binge drinking in college. The key terms that seemed to get me the most articles were "alcoholism in college". I found a bunch of articles that pushed for an increase in drinking age. A handful of issues were discussed online including underage drinking in college, bar life in college, fake ID's and the punishment for them.

3) An article by the APA seemed like an important article because they get into family influences on alcoholism and those who experience parents that were alcoholic will avoid drinking excessively than those who have not experienced it.

4) After searching this topic I realized there are so many influences that influence how much students drink in college and why they drink the amount that they do. An important issue that people seem to talk about is the influence of alcoholism from parental figures in the individuals past.

5)http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07448481.1986.9938960
   http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1991-21700-001
   These resources seem important because they are from a trusted institution and therefore they attack this problem with a scientific point of view as opposed to a biased article.

6) I didn't look for articles that related to the opposing side of my topic but i will look for some articles and see what they have to say.