HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gin Craze, Early Modern Europe, Alcoholism
11 Sep 2018
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Meanings of alcohol: how we drink locates us in terms of gender, class, age, religion, ethnicity, and national identity. Drinking is performative- it communicates messages to others. People can read our drinking and our alcohol consumption: reading by others: styles of drinking, drinks of choice, drinking locations- all communicate personal characteristics. Ordering a drink mixed together/ ordering drinks that the opposite gender usually drinks demonstrate how much we socially invest in substances. Making modern alcohol and alcoholism: alcohol use common in everyday life in early modern europe, with ir, became cheaper, more widely available, stronger. Dramatic impact on society more widely and the way we understand alcohol consumption. New industrial tech required workers- recruited from countryside, could be offered low wages. Many men came in without families from countryside, the local replicates the family. Industrial work day changed consumption patterns, rigid division b/t/ work/ home/ leisure.
