Overview
- Explores how drinking alcohol in adolescence, adulthood, middle-age or later life takes on different functions
- Analyses generational patterns regarding where, how and why people buy and consume alcohol
- Provides an international and comparative focus using case studies
Part of the book series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era (LSGE)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Alcohol, Generations and Social Change
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Alcohol, Youth and Adolescence
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Alcohol in Adulthood
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About this book
This volume explores generational differences in alcohol consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol across the life course. It considers generational patterns in where, how and why people buy and consume alcohol and how these may interact with identity and belonging and considers how drinking alcohol in adolescence, adulthood, middle-age or later life takes on different functions, meanings and tensions.
Alcohol is shown to play an important role in biographical transitions, such as in the coming of age rituals that mark the passage from adolescences to adulthood, whilst drinking alcohol in adulthood and in later life takes on new meanings, pleasures and risks in light of shifting roles and responsibilities relating to work, leisure and the family. The empirically-informed contributions draw on a range of diverse disciplinary backgrounds and a range of cultural contexts provides a nuanced examination of the role of alcohol at different life course stages and explores both continuity and change between generations.
Reviews
- Carol Emslie, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Thomas Thurnell-Read is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University, UK. His research on drinking culture has been published in leading international journals and he is a regular contributor to national and international media debates relating to pub culture, alcohol and drunkenness.
Laura Fenton is a Research Associate in the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield and in the School of Environment, Education and Development at the University of Manchester, UK. Her areas of expertise include alcohol, youth, gender, the life course, and biographical methods.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course
Editors: Thomas Thurnell-Read, Laura Fenton
Series Title: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04017-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04016-0Published: 09 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04019-1Published: 10 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04017-7Published: 08 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-3173
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 352
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology, general, Life course, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Public Health