SOCI 30 Lecture 5: Monday April 16
Monday April 16
● What is this article about
● What is the thesis?
● What are the symptoms of getting high
● Are these symptoms naturally pleasurable
● How is smoking an acquired taste
○ What was once frightening and distasteful becomes, after a taste for it
is built up, pleasant, desired, and sought after
○ Enjoyment is introduced by the favorable definition of the experience
that one acquires from others
○ A person, then, cannot begin to use marijuana for pleasure, or continue
its use for pleasure unless he learns to define its effects as enjoyable,
unless it becomes and remains an object which conceived of as
capable of producing pleasure
● What other acquired taste, are there
○ Beer, coffee, country music
● How important is anming/meaning to these conceptions?
● How impotant ae socialization and the pesence o othes in acuiin
these tastes?
Steps to becoming a marihuana user:
1. Learn the technique for getting a pleasurable high (reference groups)
a. Smoke properly
b. Indirect
c. Direct
2. Perceive the effects - labeling
POD: CONFRONTING STIGMA - TED RADIO HOUR
● Summarize the podcast
● How is drug addiction socially constructed
● How is it connected to inequality
● How does this disrupt previous ideas about addiction
● What is the opposite of addiction and why?
○ Connection
○ People want to bond with other people
■ If they do not bond with people, the bond with addiction or
something else (it's part of the puzzle)
● What are the policy and treatment implications
● How does this connect to the carl hart video
● Analyze how the material this week challenge previously held assumptions
about drug use and/or addiction?
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Document Summary
What are the symptoms of getting high. What was once frightening and distasteful becomes, after a taste for it is built up, pleasant, desired, and sought after. Enjoyment is introduced by the favorable definition of the experience that one acquires from others. Steps to becoming a marihuana user: learn the technique for getting a pleasurable high (reference groups, smoke properly, indirect, direct, perceive the effects - labeling. How does this disrupt previous ideas about addiction. People want to bond with other people. If they do not bond with people, the bond with addiction or something else (it"s part of the puzzle) What are the policy and treatment implications. How does this connect to the carl hart video. Certain traits, behaviors or attitudes are common to all or most members of a group. Persist even in the face of evidence to the contrary.
