Everything cant is perfect so isn't Mardi Gras, even to this event allows you to do things that aren't acceptable in the society. As mentioned in “ Ritualized inebriation, violence, and social control in Cajun Mardi Gras” by Rocky L Section, “One must consider the complex related issues of alcohol consumption, the potential for misbehavior and violence, and the mechanisms of control in order to comprehend it's rugged and outwardly chaotic atmosphere”. All this related to behavior that becomes violent which result in fighting, accidents, and property damage. This all can fall on to social control theory which is “social control theory proposes that exploiting the process of socialization and social learning builds self-control and reduces the…
. In one paragraph, provide a brief summary of the purpose and target population for your proposed EdBC intervention? I have chosen Alcohol Use for my interactivity assignment topic. The purpose of the Education for Behavior Change (EdBC) is to provide an intervention to reduce alcohol abuse among adults and students. Moreover, the intervention aims help to recover alcoholics to overcome their addiction as well as adults who regularly drink alcohol.…
Should College Allow Drinking in Campus? In April 2002 The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism(NIAAA) published a report, updated in 2005, that suggests a strong relationship between alcohol and other drug abuse and variety of negative consequences of students who used alcohol and drug. The report estimates that each year 1,700 college students die from alcohol-related unintentional injuries, including motor vehicle crashes. In addition, it further estimates that alcohol is involved in 599,000 unintentional injuries, 696,000 assaults, and 79,000 cases of sexual assault and acquaintance rape among college students. According to a number of national surveys, about 40% of college and university students engage in heavy episodic…
INTRODUCTION Research shows that 44% students heavily drink at least once in the last two weeks for collages campuses. Many studies have been done on social norms, attitudes, and values toward alcohol, but there are very few connections all the variables in comparison to alcohol consumption. With alcohol becoming such large health concern amongst college students is it e3ssential to study the precursor of why they drink. The importance of the study is to connect all the variable to help determine who is at risk for over excessive use of alcohol. METHOD Participants…
In a commencement speech to Kenyon graduates, David Foster Wallace metaphorically refers to our routine daily lives as water. If this holds any truth, then the metaphorical beverage equivalent with college is alcohol. Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a 40 year ongoing study at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor that surveys approximately 50,000 students a year. MTF reports that 81% of college students, and 86% of young adults from 19 to 28 years old have tried alcohol and alcohol usage has been identified as a major health problem among the college population. Although studies continue show declining alcohol usage in both the non-college attending and college attending age group, the college attending group consistently had overall higher prevalence of alcohol usage.…
Title General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the legal drinking age. Organizational Pattern: Problem – Solution…
Studies show that 73% of college students drink sometime which includes 7.4 drinks a week are consumed by males. The bad thing about this alcohol problem is that students have been reported missing classes and studies show that one fifth of kids have failed an exam due to an alcohol problem. The saddest part about it is that alcohol is involved with 90% sexual assaults on college campuses. Lastly, there has been tons of research saying that alcohol has the ability to affect a teenager's brain more than an adult's brain.…
For this assignment I have chosen three articles that use the data collection strategy Social Network Analysis (SNA.) Each article presents a different research topic but they all had a common theme which compared an individual's centrality to how it affects their social interactions, mental health, and behavioral patterns. Each case has different results which I will discuss and all researchers carefully gathered their data from a collective group of participants. The Effects of Friendship Network Popularity on Depressive Symptoms During Early Adolescence: Moderation by Fear of Negative Evaluation and Gender investigates how friendship network popularity is correlated to depressive symptoms in early adolescence. In this study, 367 students…
Applying Conflict Theory to Binge Drinking Society is broken down and understood through the use of theories. Social theories are analytical frameworks used to understand social problems that plague society. (Hungerford, 2008). Conflict theorists explain how society is structured to benefit few at the expense of the majority (Hungerford, 2008).…
“Eighteen year olds can vote and die for there country so there throats should be able to feel the burn of jack daniels. If you can toss a hand grenades you should be able to toss back a shot of tequilla” (Levine). In the United States the legal drinking age is twenty-one, while other countries have theirs lower and are having less underage drinking problems. This shows why the legal drinking age should be lowered from twenty-one to eighteen. At the age of eighteen kids get many new responsibilities.…
The reality of this culture is that the consequences of college drinking are far more occasional than tragic. Despite the minimal attention given to the less recognizable consequences, high-risk college drinking continues to be more prevalent and disparaging than most people recognize. Injuries, assaults, and other health and academic aspects of this culture are occurring on a daily. This persistent problem affects virtually all college communities and students whether they drink or…
College is an exciting time for many young adults. It is the first step towards adulthood and for a majority of students it’s the first time they experience independence. “Alcohol consumption in humans is the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States (McGinnis & Foege, 1993). A common abuse pattern called binge drinking contributes to a substantial portion of alcohol-related deaths (Chikritzhs, Jonas, Stockwell, Heale, & Dietze, 2001)”. Though with freedom comes responsibility.…
However when the teen goes to college is the most important, it's when they are the most vulnerable. It's been estimated that nearly half of all college students and 80 percent of students who live in fraternity houses engage in binge drinking (consuming four or more drinks in a row (Binge 7). College is a place where alcohol is highly available to just about anyone all it takes is some older friends or friends with fake IDs. Students under 21 are actually more likely to be binge drinkers than are older students (Binge…
Higher learning institutions have a responsibility of ensuring that students are being catered for as the latter face diverse challenges such as alcohol and substance abuse, among others within and outside the campuses. This can be done through creating a relatively comfortable environment that helps in resolving the challenges likely to arise. For instance, a lot of input in terms of resources such as facilities, skilled human resource, technology, space, inter alia is essential for any higher learning institution. In order for all these to work in tandem, the institutions need to have strategic plan for counseling and management programs that will formulate policies, rules and regulations that will, for instance, help alcohol and substance…
Often times, people think about a person’s character before we even meet them. These biases and thoughts often can lead them to treating that person differently, simply because of their perception to us. The self-fulfilling prophecy is connected to the perceptual bias in many ways. A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that does come true, but only because the predictor affected the outcome directly or indirectly. Our actions impact others beliefs about us, those beliefs cause others actions toward us.…