When Alcohol Acts: An Actor-Network Approach to Teenagers, Alcohol and Parties.

The article highlights the sociological research on alcohol and teenagers's relationships using a theoretical approach inspired by the actor-network theory (ANT) in Denmark. The author states that the central feature of ANT is to search for relationships or networks between things relevant to the phenomenon. In addition, the study proposes ways of including materiality in sociological analyses of alcohol and explores ways of using focus group interview material in ANT-inspired analysis. Moreover, the study investigates how the actants brought out by young people in the focus groups themselves constitute different forms of agency.