Contested Meanings: Construction of Alcohol Problems - Softcover

Joseph R. Gusfield

 
9780299149345: Contested Meanings: Construction of Alcohol Problems
Softcover
ISBN 10: 029914934X ISBN 13: 9780299149345
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996

Synopsis

This work brings together a selection of the author's articles, written over a period of 20 years, observing the place of alcohol in American culture. The text also contains several ethnographic studies of bars in San Diego and a study of court-mandated programmes for drink drivers.

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About the Author

Joseph R. Gusfield is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, San Diego.

From the Back Cover

The theme throughout Contested Meanings is the conflicting and changing ways society defines social problems. He emerges in the course of the book as a thoughtful and realistic social critic who looks beyond analyses of drinking as pathological behavior to consider the place of alcohol in American popular and leisure culture.

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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
029914934X
ISBN 13 
9780299149345
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
384

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