Desire and Craving
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- ISBN 9780791410981
- Weight: 354g
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 1992
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book is an ethnographic analysis of alcoholism, focusing on the importance of cultural explanations of heavy drinking in modern society. As a starting point, Alasuutari uses a cognitive concept of frames in order to study the social and cultural boundedness of alcohol related problems. The ethnographic narratives concentrate on specific cases, but stress the theoretical level of analysis, and reveal the ways in which the alcoholism frame is linked with Western culture and society. Alasuutari also provides an analysis of the role of the temperance movement and ideology in Finland, and the rise of the distinction between normal and pathological drinking.
Pertti Alasuutari is Acting Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Tampere, Finland and Editor-in-Chief of Sosiologia (The Finnish Sociology Journal).
