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This paper focuses on the control strategies of the men and women interviewed in dating situations. In particular, the differences between the control strategies employed by men and by women [...], Drawing on qualitative interviews with 21 women and 19 men, this paper describes the social rules that govern the dating situation, the symbolic and pharmacological role of alcohol in dating, and the strategies used to avoid conflict and aggression. Women use strategies to minimize risk, while men try to avoid problems by ensuring that they have control of the situation. A qualitative study of courtship, dating and drinking was undertaken with young adult in Toronto, Canada, in the summer of 1994. Those interviewed were between Me ages of 18 and 34, heterosexual, had no children, occasionally drank alcohol, and had dated someone new at least once in the past year. This paper reports on one aspect of the analysis of the data from the 40 people (19 men and 21 women) interviewed This study suggests that aggression is one response to conflicting views of a dating situation. The men and women interviewed had expectations for appropriate behavior when meeting potential mates and on initial dates, and in most cases those expectations were the same. However, where expectations differed, the men attempted to impose their framing of the situation, and the women generally resisted, attempting to limit the risk associated with this framing of the situation. The men and women interviewed used tactics such as persuasion, manipulation or even aggression to attempt to resolve this conflict, and to impose their own situational definitions.

The recent Canadian criminal case of Daviault v. R. with its subsequent decision handed down by the Supreme Court has sparked a substantial discussion around the issue of liability of [...], This paper provides a contrast to the discussion of intoxication in the Canadian legal context. While describing the success of German criminal law in handling the thorny issues of legal responsibility of the intoxicated offender, the paper also critiques the politicization of basic legal principles in the Canadian debate.

Drinking and becoming intoxicated are highly symbolic activities that tend to say something about the people drinking and the activities in which they are involved. This point has been widely [...], Drawing on ethnographic, historical and social science sources, inventories of the diverse social meanings of drinking and of intoxication are provided and are discussed in terms of key factors in the cultural frameworks for assigning such meanings.

The Polish alcohol market, controlled by a state monopoly since the 1920s, was privatized in 1988-89. Alcohol problems indicators have risen sharply, and indirect estimates suggest that alcohol consumption has [...]

State alcohol monopolies in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Iceland were an outcome of the interplay of temperance movements with national and class movements. Their place as an important feature of [...]

States have monopolized alcohol sales for many purposes, including the minimization of alcohol problems. Though they are threatened with reductions in scope or privatization, they have substantial potential as instruments [...]

The way was prepared for the dramatic 1917 shift from spirits to beer by successful campaigns by brewers to identify beer-drinking with Danish character and history and to position weaker [...]

An interview with young adult women (aged 18 to 25) is conducted as they cross to and from the border of the Mexico and the U.S., and after which, a follow-up procedure is done. Data from the follow-up telephone interviews showed that 8% of women had negative events happened to them returning to the U.S. after a night of binge drinking.

Alcohol consumption of college students in natural drinking environments is measured using field methodology. Details from bar and party observations are presented.