SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Truism, Atlantic Canada, Alcohol Intoxication

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

Document Summary

The excessive consumption of alcohol makes it difficult for most people to effectively perform their expected institutional roles, marital, familial, economic and educational. Failing to perform roles as a result of intoxication is a form of deviance. The effects of alcohol facilitate or are associated with the enactment of many forms of deviance, including crime, violence, sexual misbehaviour, and needless accidents. At certain times/in certain circumstances the mere consumption of alcohol, regardless of its consequences, has been or is regarded as both legally and informally non-normative. While very few sociologists define deviance by harm, harm and deviance are not randomly related to one another, many of the most harmful activities are condemned. There"s a concern that practically all adult members of the society harbour when it comes to drinking: alcohol consumption among minors. There are at least two measures of alcohol consumption: drinking vs. abstinence, and drinking vs. drinking to excess.