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Scientific Ideologies And Conceptions Of Drinking Behavior And Alcoholism, Keith M. Kilty
Scientific Ideologies And Conceptions Of Drinking Behavior And Alcoholism, Keith M. Kilty
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Conventional explanations of drinking behavior and alcoholism suffer from serious inadequacies, due in large part to their unquestioning acceptance of certain assumptions about the effects of alcohol on human behavior that are rooted in moral prescriptions. That is, most contemporary models of drinking behavior assume that the consumption of alcohol leads to the loss of inhibitions or self-control, ultimately leading to behaviors that are not predictable by either the drinker or society. This perspective has become so deeply ingrained in the social scientific literature that it is no longer even perceived as hypothetical; instead, it has taken on the character …