Voices From The Field Summary
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Voices from the field: The social construction of alcohol problems in inner-city communities
By: Denise Herd
Contemporary Drug Problems
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The study “voices from the field” by denise herd, examines the social construction of alcohol problems, by activists within the communities, throughout the neighborhoods across the country in the 1990s. Alcoholism relates to many social problems, as well as diseases that are fatal to human health, throughout the globe. However, this particular study shows the involvement of communities, to fight against the marketing and sales, and alcohol outlets that are causing social disorders such as crime, nuisance, drug abuse and public …show more content…
The data for the study are from 184 community leaders, and informants spread across the United States, in the cities of Baltimore, Milwaukee, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Oakland, and Raleigh. The cities were chosen on the basis of 5 years or more history of activism against alcohol abuse. The funding for the study was provided from the grants of the National institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the Substance Abuse Research Policy Program at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The data was collected through interviews from the informants and community leaders in each of the respective communities. These informants were selected using the snowball sampling techniques. For an individual to be considered for an interview, he or she must be referred by two or more informants. The data collection took almost two and a half years i.e. from 1996 to 1999. Majority of the data i.e. 40 informants each were collected from the Oakland and Los Angeles i.e. from the state of California. The rest of the 104 informants were from the remaining five cities across the country, with 28 informants from Milwaukee, and 17 to 21 informants each from San Antonio, …show more content…
This study looks at the broader aspects of social problem within the community due to alcohol abuse. The study also linked crime with the alcohol problems, and the role of alcohol outlets is of key importance in crime and violence. Alcohol outlets are also causing various other social problems, such as, drunken driving, child abuse and neglect etc. Moreover, the troubles that minority communities put up with respect to the alcohol outlets and advertising were viewed as an indication of social inequity, which heightens the lack of choice of businesses and services. This made the activists define the social problem related to the marketing and sales of alcohol. From this article it could be finally concluded that, by decreasing the sales and marketing of alcohol, and by regulating the alcohol outlets much of these social ills can be diminished from the societies across the
Voices from the field: The social construction of alcohol problems in inner-city communities
By: Denise Herd
Contemporary Drug Problems
Name of the writer
The study “voices from the field” by denise herd, examines the social construction of alcohol problems, by activists within the communities, throughout the neighborhoods across the country in the 1990s. Alcoholism relates to many social problems, as well as diseases that are fatal to human health, throughout the globe. However, this particular study shows the involvement of communities, to fight against the marketing and sales, and alcohol outlets that are causing social disorders such as crime, nuisance, drug abuse and public …show more content…
The data for the study are from 184 community leaders, and informants spread across the United States, in the cities of Baltimore, Milwaukee, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Oakland, and Raleigh. The cities were chosen on the basis of 5 years or more history of activism against alcohol abuse. The funding for the study was provided from the grants of the National institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the Substance Abuse Research Policy Program at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The data was collected through interviews from the informants and community leaders in each of the respective communities. These informants were selected using the snowball sampling techniques. For an individual to be considered for an interview, he or she must be referred by two or more informants. The data collection took almost two and a half years i.e. from 1996 to 1999. Majority of the data i.e. 40 informants each were collected from the Oakland and Los Angeles i.e. from the state of California. The rest of the 104 informants were from the remaining five cities across the country, with 28 informants from Milwaukee, and 17 to 21 informants each from San Antonio, …show more content…
This study looks at the broader aspects of social problem within the community due to alcohol abuse. The study also linked crime with the alcohol problems, and the role of alcohol outlets is of key importance in crime and violence. Alcohol outlets are also causing various other social problems, such as, drunken driving, child abuse and neglect etc. Moreover, the troubles that minority communities put up with respect to the alcohol outlets and advertising were viewed as an indication of social inequity, which heightens the lack of choice of businesses and services. This made the activists define the social problem related to the marketing and sales of alcohol. From this article it could be finally concluded that, by decreasing the sales and marketing of alcohol, and by regulating the alcohol outlets much of these social ills can be diminished from the societies across the