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Dec 30, 2021 · For most of our history, however, alcohol has come with two built-in safety features that have limited the danger it presents to both individuals and societies: natural limits to strength of...
- Edward Slingerland
- Study Characteristics
- Definitions and Typologies of Drinking Cultures
- Major Themes
- The Social Construction of Alcohol Use
- Major Characteristics of Drinking Cultures
- Gender Issues in Relation to Alcohol Use
- Changes in National Drinking Cultures Over Time
- Acculturation and Ethnic Drinking Cultures in Migrant Populations
- Socialisation Processes
- Other
Studies could be broadly classified as theoretical (N = 5) or empirical (N = 83). Examples of theoretical articles included are those of Engs (1995), which discussed explanations for aetiology of the northern and the southern drinking cultures in antiquity, and the work of Savic et al. (2016) that, after analysing existing drinking culture definiti...
The majority of the studies (N = 55; 63%) actually only merely mentioned the existence of drinking culture, without any attempt to define it. In nine studies (10%), the drinking culture of a particular group (often high school or university students) was negatively viewed and labelled as heavy, risky, excessive, or of intoxication (e.g., Hebden, Ly...
The reviewed studies examined a range of issues that can be grouped into seven thematic areas: the social construction of alcohol use (N = 33), major characteristics of drinking cultures (N = 23), gender issues in relation to alcohol use (N = 10), change in national drinking cultures over time (N = 10), acculturation and ethnic drinking cultures in...
The largest group of studies consisted of those that aimed to achieve an in-depth understanding of the meanings, representations, and social constructions of drinking practices. These studies addressed several key issues of the drinking culture literature, including differences across countries in representations of what is “normal” or “pathologica...
A large number of studies focused on variations within or between countries in the major features of drinking cultures, including drinking patterns, beverage preferences, context of drinking, and perceptions in regard to the acceptability of visible drunkenness (e.g., Bennett, Campillo, Chandrashekar, & Gureje, 1998; Fjær et al., 2016; Mäkelä et al...
Women’s alcohol use and the construction of gender identities in relation to alcohol use appear as an important theme as well. Some studies were specifically interested in women’s drinking patterns and related factors. For example, Ahlström (1995) used existing data to discuss cross-cultural differences in women’s drinking patterns, acceptability o...
A relatively large number of studies (ten) examined how changes occurred in the features of national drinking cultures over time. For example, Mäkelä et al. (2012) compared epidemiological data on drinking patterns and contexts of alcohol use in Finland from 1968 to 2008 and found changes in the Finnish drinking culture towards more permissiveness ...
Another relatively recent line of research, originating from the increased interest in geographic mobility, investigated the effects of acculturation processes and ethnic drinking cultures (i.e., the culture of origin) on drinking outcomes among migrant populations. For example, Cook, Karriker-Jaffe, Bond, and Lui (2015) demonstrated that ethnic dr...
Because socialisation is crucial to the transmission and learning of cultural norms and practices, socialisation processes represented yet another essential theme, which was examined by four of the studies included in the review. For example, Rolando, Beccaria, Tigerstedt, and Törrönen (2012) compared how alcohol socialisation experiences take plac...
Lastly, three studies did not fall into any of the previous groups and focused on specific aspects (i.e., the aetiology and conceptualisation of the drinking culture construct; Ames & Janes, 1992; Engs, 1995; Savic et al., 2016).
- Giovanni Aresi, Kim Bloomfield
- 2021
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Nov 15, 2023 · Many understand the harms of deciding to make alcohol the center of adult social life. But many insist that alcohol itself can be useful, that the problem is overconsumption. Everyone else wants ...
- Conor Friedersdorf
Jul 13, 2013 · *Societies classified as: “men drink more,” “women drink more,” and “men and women drink equally” *Gender differences *Gender differences in 53 societies (men drank more than women), no clear evidence of gender differences in 36 societies. Gender differences found for those societies that used alcohol in an aboriginal manner: 3: a.
Apr 15, 2016 · Drinking cultures are generally described in terms of the norms around patterns, practices, use-values, settings and occasions in relation to alcohol and alcohol problems that operate and are enforced (to varying degrees) in a society (macro-level) or in a subgroup within society (micro-level).
- Michael Savic, Robin Room, Janette Mugavin, Amy Pennay, Michael Livingston
- 2016
Sep 2, 2016 · But, the question still remains open about how best to measure cultural change in drinking – not changes up and down in the level of alcohol consumption in a population, but rather changes in the norms and informal social controls around drinking and associated behaviours.
Oct 22, 2014 · Every so often societies tend to slip into moral panics about drinking excess, at times on rather questionable grounds. And throughout European history, alcohol has been viewed as a socio-cultural ...
