College Drinking

Introduction
In the last few years, drinking alcohol and partying has become the most central social behavior among American college students. This kind of behavior has many negative consequences. About 1 out of 4 American college students report academic problems which accurse from drinking and partying, for instance missing classes, doing poorly on exams and papers and receiving lower grades. Previous research has found “That pre-partying is involved in proximally 45% of all drinking events of US student’s. Pre-partying was predictive of more drinking throughout the day of the drinking event and alcohol-related negative consequences” (Eric R. Pedersen, MA; Joseph LaBrie, 2010). This research is related to our topic by focusing on the social partying life of the American student’s and its …show more content…
Other research “Identified five major insights in the cultural meanings of college drinking: drinking is central to the US college experience, drinking has significant social and functional meaning to student’s identities, heavy drinking derives from a culture of risk taking, college drinking is highly scripted and ritualized and various social motive drive student’s drinking” (Andy Soon