Alcohol use in the perspective of cultural ecology.
Examination of the use of alcohol in traditional agrarian society reveals that drinking and the drinking context is for the most part integrative, conflict-reducing, and reinforcing of corporate identity. With acculturation and modernization, and the introduction of full-scale cash-based economies, alcohol use is more frequently a social and pathological and serves individual as opposed to jointly shared objectives. Analysis of these issues is accomplished through a review of the cultural ecological perspectives on drinking and culture in a variety of societies around the world.
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology*; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003469:Culture; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support; D012945:Social Values; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors