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.
You might consider a focus on "The Party Pathway" as discussed by Armstrong and Hamilton, and you could talk about the role that Greek life plays in supporting that pathway. If you take that more institution-focused approach, you should also read Murray Sperber's book Beer and Circus (some of which is excerpted on our Sakai site) and The Dark Power of Fraternities (which is online).
ReplyDeleteI have had a number of students do good work with the general topic of student drinking over the years. You might look at some of their blogs for ideas and possible sources (though not all of their blogs are great):
http://rutgersfall15.blogspot.com/
http://callielo.blogspot.com/
http://rutgersunderground.blogspot.com/
http://tomnovak201college.blogspot.com/