Alcoholic Thinking: Language, Culture, and Belief in Alcoholics Anonymous - Couverture rigide

Wilcox, Danny M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0275960498 ISBN 13 : 9780275960490

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Based on long-term observation of Alcoholics Anonymous, the author focuses on cultural rather than personal causes of drug dependence. The author also discusses how the symbolic action of AA language and culture is the key to recovery. This study yields critical information about the development and practice of alcoholism and other drug dependence. Through the shared linguistic and cultural interaction of AA, the U.S. cultural ideology that emphasizes individualism, personal achievement, self-control, and self-reliance is shown to result in conflict; thus the gap between the perceived ideal and reality intensifies feelings of separation, alienation, and isolation leading to dependency.

This detailed ethnographic narrative of Alcoholics Anonymous is based on three years of participant observation. The study suggests that anyone can be victimized by alcoholic thinking. Anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, health care and professional social services organizations will be interested in this book.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

DANNY M. WILCOX is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Institute of Anthropology, School of Community Service at the University of North Texas. He authored the chapter Drug Culture: Everybody Uses Something in Larry L. Naylor's (ed.), Cultural Diversity in the United States (Bergin & Garvey, 1997).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0275960498
• ISBN 13: 9780275960490
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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