SOC 2070 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Psychological Dependence, Top Alcohol, Cirrhosis

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Norman Dubeski

Document Summary

This document contains notes on the following: unit 04 (courselink, chapter 4 (textbook) Courselink - unit 04: drug use as deviance. The essentials on the essentialist approach: alcohol is . A depressant in regards to the central nervous system. Almost always administered orally o o o o: can be used for fuel but has no nutritional value outside of calories. o, can be made from anything with sugar. For pregnant women fetal alcohol syndrome: all drinkable alcohol is ethanol or grain alcohol, the processes are fermentation and distillation. When is it deviant: the consumption of alcohol becomes socially constructed as deviant in many of the same ways of other forms of deviance. Alcoholism as a social problem: there are key elements to defining alcoholism, quantity o o o o. Serious life difficulties: the definitions of alcoholism vary because it is subjective and socially constructed.