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.”