“They must be 18 years old ... really”. Alcohol debut discourses at parent meetings within alcohol prevention programmes in school:

Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

ØysteinHenriksen¹ 

关键词: alcohol debut;    norms;    prevention;    parents;    youth;   

DOI  :  10.2478/v10199-012-0040-9

学科分类：生物化学/生物物理

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

AimsThis article analyses how parents discuss norms of youth alcohol debut at meetings of alcohol prevention programmes in schools. The focus is on how different ways of argumentation can help to deal with dilemmas between what parents perceive to be the right age of debut, what they describe as common, and what they consider is possible to realise.Methods and DataThe data mainly consists of audio recordings of conversations at parent meetings arranged by an alcohol prevention programme in the eighth grade at four schools in four different locations in Norway. The study takes its inspiration from discourse analysis.ResultsThe analysis identifies three different patterns of parent discussions about alcohol debut. This information is used to construct three discourses of norms for alcohol debut, namely, a traditional discourse, a discourse of modern upbringing and a discourse of legalisation. Both the traditional opinions, which centre on the significance of the confirmation age, and the modern individualis...

【 授权许可】

CC BY