SOC 311 Study Guide - Final Guide: Spontaneous Remission, Rockefeller Drug Laws, Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
1 May 2014
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Social norms approach: norms connote a system of meanings and attitudes within which individuals interpret a given situation and take direction for their behavior within a particular cultural domain. Normalization- process through which ideas and actions come to be seen as normal and become taken for granted or natural in everyday life. Alcoholics anonymous- (1935, bill wilson or bill w. was the co-founder) disease notion of addiction was established around this time. Higher power- term coined in the 1930"s in aa. Term refers to a supreme being or some conception of god. 12 steps of aa: these steps basically convince the members that they are powerless over alcohol and that they should turn their will and lives over to god even though program claims to not be religion-based. Aa is not only disease based but also abstinence based. Women for sobriety- ( new life acceptance program) very different from aa because it does not make members feel powerless.
