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Sociological Theory
A Bioanthropological Overview of Addiction
Sometimes a collaboration between individuals occupied in separate biological fields and the application of understandings from one field to the other leads to felicitous insights and new perspectiv…
Posted on Mon, 03/13/2006 - 03:00
A Bioanthropological Overview of Addiction
We may now ask ourselves, Where does the human being fit into this pattern?
It is evident that no natural design as universal as the response against crowding in the interlocking network of mechan…
Posted on Mon, 03/13/2006 - 03:00
Toward a Sociology of Drug Use
SOCIALIZATION
The identification of social norms assumes that behavior is transmitted to actors who, depending on circumstances, tend to adhere to appropriate beliefs and concomitant behaviors.
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Posted on Thu, 03/09/2006 - 03:00
The Social Setting as a Control Mechanism
The history of the use of alcohol in America provides a striking example of the variability of intoxicant use and its control (Ade 1931; Bacon 1969). First, it illustrates the social prescriptions t…
Posted on Thu, 03/09/2006 - 03:00
Toward a Sociology of Drug Use
Illicit substance use would appear to be a fruitful arena in which to use sociology to provide us with the insights needed to understand a vast and changing panorama.
In very recent history, illic…
Posted on Thu, 03/09/2006 - 03:00
The Social Setting as a Control Mechanism
By Norman E. Zinberg, M.D.
An individual??Ts decision to use an intoxicant, the effects it has on the user, and the ongoing psychological and social implications of that use depend not only on the…
Posted on Thu, 03/09/2006 - 03:00
The Social Bases of Drug-Induced Experiences
Scientists no longer believe that a drug has a simple physiological action, essentially the same in all humans. Experimental, anthropological, and sociological evidence has convinced most observers …
Posted on Fri, 03/03/2006 - 03:00
An Interactional Approach to Narcotic Addiction
As in other fields of medicine and the behavioral sciences, an interactional approach to the etiology, epidemiology, psychopathology, and treatment of narcotic addiction implies the operation of mul…
Posted on Thu, 02/16/2006 - 03:00
The Community-Reinforcement Approach
William R. Miller, Ph.D., and Robert J. Meyers, M.S.,with Susanne Hiller-Sturmh?fel, Ph.D.
The community-reinforcement approach (CRA) is an alcoholism treatment approach that aims to achieve abstin…
Posted on Thu, 01/05/2006 - 03:00
The Addiction Experience
It is understandable that people wish to explain their problems and pathologies in terms of forces which come from outside themselves, and over which they have no power. In this way we can reject ac…
Posted on Wed, 11/02/2005 - 03:00
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