Engelsk titel: Mind the gender gap! When boys and girls get drunk at a party
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Författare:
Östergaard J
Email: jo@sociology.ku.dk
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 43
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 07073833
Sammanfattning
This article investigates the gender
gap in alcohol use and partying among
Danish adolescents by means of a
survey of 15-16-year-olds. The aim
is, first, to reveal the present gender
differences in alcohol use when using
measurements such as ‘age of onset
of drinking’, ‘frequency of intoxication’,
‘binge drinking’ etc. Second, by drawing
on other types of questions, the issue
of the gender gap is readdressed from
a perspective which contextualises
adolescents’ use of alcohol. The context
is the last party the adolescent went to,
and the questions centre on whether boys
and girls party differently and how alcohol
might effect how they party. By using
graphical models for high-dimensional
contingencies developed by Kreiner
(1987; 1996; 2003), it is first analysed if
consumption of alcohol makes boys rate
the party more successful than girls.
Second, by mapping out what boys and
girls do when they party it is analysed
whether alcohol consumption results in
boys and girls doing the same or different
activities at the party. Finally, it is analysed
what activities are associated with rating
the party as successful. At the very end
it is then discussed how a gender gap
in alcohol consumption could also be
explained by how alcohol is embedded in
a social setting, where the adolescents
perform traditional gender roles.