Getting Wasted: Why College Students Drink Too Much and Party So Hard
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (519 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814788327 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 229 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Worth reading, thinking about, acting upon Public perceptions of college student alcohol consumption are often distorted by sensationalistic stories in the popular media: we hear on the news that an honor student dies of alcohol poisoning or a coed falls from a dormitory window after a campus party and believe that such events are common and are left unable to make sense of them. They are blurred as well by social scientific studies that ab. A Safari into the Wilds of College Drinking Tom VanderVen The book recognizes and clearly articulates the complexity of values and behaviors in the college binge-drinking world. Authentic voices of students narrating their experiences. "Take care of each other" both recognizes the serious dangers in getting drunk and advocates a caring and protective response to friends and potential vIctims in the drinking culture that can indirectly mitigate the extreme. Rating Mary E. Chance This book gave me a better understanding of students entering college and leaving home for the first time. In the book a person gets a better understanding of the challenges these young adults face and have to deal with being away from their families for the first time.
"The book is worth a read to get students' perspectives on the binge-drinking culture, and provoke thought on how to address the problems that stem from it."
Drawing on over 400 student accounts, 25 intensive interviews, and one hundred hours of field research, Vander Ven sheds light on the extremely social nature of college drinking. In Getting Wasted, Thomas Vander Ven provides a unique answer to the perennial question of why college students drink.Vander Ven argues that college students rely on “drunk support:” contrary to most accounts of alcohol abuse as being a solitary problem of one person drinking to excess, the college drinking scene is very much a social o