Social Life Of Smokes: A Theoretical Analysis

In a complex structure of society, it is not easy to evaluate the existing trends about the evil some practices. As a social practice, it has been often viewed that people traditionally accept a malicious activity and start ranking it under the provisions of social values. The use of drugs is one of them. Illegal usage of drugs has been a social issue in almost every society of the world. If the developed nations like America or European continent have formed strict laws to prevent the spread of drug use in the society, there are a few countries where these things are applied as a social practice and people tend to accept them and use them too. In the article Social Life of Smokes: Process of Exchange of Heroine in the Marketplace by Robin …show more content…
He, in fact, has conducted a study in which he made a few people as his participants. He does it with an objective to link the process of heroine exchange with the habit of sharing his cigarette. The habit is very common among the individuals and nobody objects on this sharing pattern. It seems like an automated procedure of things to go on. Even in a social gathering, people do not mind sharing of cigarette then why it has been banned to share and use the drug like heroine? The questions functions as a catalyst to the mindset of Dwyer and reaches to the Vietnamese dealer of drug inside the suburbs of Melbourne where he observes everything precisely that is happening. “My analysis draws on two years of participant observation …show more content…
She actually became a part of Vietnamese community of drug dealer and her impression was to maintain that status; to become a familiarized face inside the community. She discovered that people were not unlike other communities of the world and they had a heart and soul to emotionally react, however, they had a sharp eye to discriminate between a regular customer and the needy. Her talk with some of them resulted in her discovery that she mentions through her recorded experiences. The most significant related to the case study was the very first one when she was sitting in a restaurant by the market place where a young one caught her attention. In fact, the young man found her sitting alone and approached her. She was not feeling to have a company of anyone but, he offered his company to her, claiming that she needed it. He preferred the eye of a heroin seller in which, he partially succeeded as the recorded conversation between the two tells. Dwyer speaks of his personality and the characters of other Vietnamese sellers in a way that they do not find anything objectionable in the form of selling the banned drug like