By Professor Thomas S. Weinberg PhD
Alcohol use is a vital part of the homosexual global. based on a few estimates, the speed of challenge ingesting is ready 3 times greater between gays than in mainstream society, yet few researchers have tested this phenomenon in depth.Thomas S. Weinberg’s ethnographic learn offers new perception into the position of consuming within the homosexual male group. Weinberg makes use of interviewing and player remark strategies in numerous drinking-related settings within the homosexual culture of "Paradise City," the fictional identify of a giant western urban the place he conducted his research.Emphasizing ingesting as social habit, Weinberg explores the methods social contexts—such as bars, love relationships, and reference groups—affect person consuming styles and concludes that consuming is in detail entwined with friendship networks and prolonged households within the homosexual world.Weinberg is worried not just with alcoholism yet with version in alcohol use and alterations in alcohol use over the years. He employs the concept that of "career" to give an explanation for why and the way an individual’s consuming may well both bring up or lessen over the process his lifetime. Letting his informants converse for themselves, Weinberg directs awareness to their very own views at the that means in their ingesting behavior.After making a typology of drinkers, together with self-defined in addition to researcher-defined alcoholics, Weinberg considers substitute factors for homosexual challenge ingesting. He completely explores the homosexual bar scene, its value in homosexual existence, and how that interactions in the bar surroundings impact consuming and risk-taking, particularly as they relate to HIV. Weinberg additionally appears to be like heavily at self-defined homosexual alcoholics and considers 3 substitute factors for homosexual challenge consuming: the alienation thesis, the impression of parental function types, and reference workforce idea. He rejects the alienation thesis and the impact of parental position types simply because those causal components weren't borne out via his statistical correlations. in its place, Weinberg unearths the main strong clarification in reference workforce conception, which hyperlinks participants’ habit to the norms of the social teams they establish with. ultimately, he arrives at a processual version of homosexual challenge consuming according to his information analysis.By evaluating alcohol use within the gay and heterosexual groups, Weinberg offers a brand new point of view on homosexual challenge ingesting that may curiosity sociologists, psychologists, and clinicians, in addition to involved lay readers within the homosexual neighborhood. He cites examinations of large-scale survey learn on tavern attendance and consuming, ethnographic reports of bar habit, literature on exact teams, and reports of marital interplay in alcoholic households, concluding that homosexual consuming is a distinct scenario that purely reference workforce conception and a processual version properly handle. The ultimate bankruptcy includes coverage ideas for decreasing alcohol use within the homosexual neighborhood.
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The ethnographic literature consists of studies that are primarily observational and that make only infrequent use of systematically gathered in-depth interview materials, so that often what is presented is the researcher's point of view, rather than the meanings his or her respondents place on their own and others' behavior. The survey research and the psychoanalytic literature present other problems. They are often plagued with difficulties stemming Page 4 from preconceived notions about the nature and extent of pathological drinking.
The Perspective of This Book The present study is intended to fill the gaps detailed above in the literature concerning gay male drinking. It was designed to examine gay male drinking in a broader social context, to discover the meanings embedded in its use, and to describe the role drinking plays within the gay male subculture. The framework for analysis is symbolic interactionism, which focuses on the individual "with a self" and on the interaction between a person's internal thoughts and emotions and his or her social behavior.