The Social Acceptance Of Alcohol

of alcohol in the college environment has been growing in popularity for as long as it has been available. College students, whether freshman or upperclassmen, spend the entire week yearning for the weekend where they are free from the responsibilities that keep them sober. New students desire to be accepted by their peers, and consuming what is offered to them provides them a with a one-way ticket to social adoption, or so it seems. But what if students are not drinking solely for social purposes

Throughout history, society has engaged in taking substances such as alcohol, that alter our physical being or our psychological state of mind. There are many experiences and pressures that force people to feel like they have to drink in order to cope with life, but for many alcohol is a part of everyday life, just like any other beverage. Alcohol is introduced to us in many ways, through our family, television, movies, and friends’. These “sociocultural variants are at least as important as physiological

the Social Learning Theory (SLT) states that modeling (observational learning) can influence alcohol and drug use (or any other substance related behaviors) in three ways: • Firstly, the acquisition (starting to use alcohol) is the tendency to repeat a pattern of behaviour if a person observes similar the use of substances in the environment, he/ she will become more likely to imitate them; • Secondly, inhibition and disinhibition (strengthening or weakening the restraints against alcohol use)

Development PSY/375 1-24-11 Deborah Wilkerson Middle Childhood and Adolescence Development Changes in Peer Relationships in Middle Childhood and Adolescence Statistics say that in the stages in middle adolescence 30% of the child’s social life and interactions there are a great stage of peer pressure. These results were compared to the 10% that is experienced during the early childhood. They show that they are competent by demonstrating their behaviors in these peer groups

as the reasons or final pathway to the consumption of alcohol (Kuntsche, Knibbe, Gmel, & Engels, 2006). Cooper (1994) had proposed four types of drinking motives; (1) Enhancement motives involve drinking to increase positive affect states or positive moods, such as sensation seeking and pleasurable moments (Ham & Hope, 2003). Alcohol is widely used to fulfil needs for novelty and stimulation to create the thrills or sensation over the social situations. Reports suggested that individuals who are

teenagers, they fall quickly into the hands of alcohol even though they are underage. Teenagers have easy access to alcohol either through older teenagers that buy it for them or in parties even though it is illegal for them to consume for being underage. Underage college students sometimes overdose due to finally having easy access to alcohol in college parties. I think due to teenagers not being mature enough nor are responsible enough to handle too much alcohol inside of them, the government should not

excessive drinking can result if alcohol use becomes an integral part of peer interactions. A recent study, which followed students throughout their college years and then reassessed them 4 and 7 years after graduation, revealed the social environment to be a highly significant predictor for drinking in college [19]. In the context of the SLT construct of social reinforcement, both socialisation and selection contribute to this process. Socialisation is evident when alcohol use becomes prevalent, accepted

Underage drinking in the US is one of the social issues, which has been responsible for numerous economic losses, accidents, deaths and crimes. Youth have become actively involved in drinking abuse, where they lose their sense of understanding and comprehension. To eradicate the social issue of underage drinking, numerous strategies have been implemented by the US government, where some of them were successful, while others were not able to produce significant reduction in underage drinking. Today

Cliques/crowds- Adolescents experience many different changes and develop social and psychological changes throughout this experience. They learn to form their own identity, roles and relationships. This is important for adolescent to understand that they all share common feelings of pressure, wanting acceptance, friends and love. Cliques define “the main social context in which adolescents interact with one another and crowds are clearly defined as a basis of identification of adolescents who share

to be deviant varies across societies.” How could members of our society see drinking as anything but a norm when everywhere one turns alcohol is being advertised? Whether it be on billboards, busses, in magazine ads, or television commercials, alcohol is everywhere and it seems as though everyone is drinking it. Gone are the times of prohibition, when alcohol was seen as evil. After doing quantitative research on